New Pictures.

Rogozhin · Posted: Sat Jun 28, 2008 7:58 pm Post subject: New Pictures.

Went to the property for the weekend and took some pictures of dry falls, blue lake, and banks lake on the way up.

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CarlinsDarlin · Moderator Joined: Jul 02, 2004 Posts: 1420

Beautiful pictures. I must have missed it somewhere - where did you say your property is? Gorgeous.
Kathy

patience · Expert Joined: Jan 04, 2008 Posts: 1664

Rogozhin,
You have property in this area I presume? Looks like a LOOOONNNGG way from the zombie hordes. I doubt if they go there. Cool pix!
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Rogozhin · Posted: Sat Jun 28, 2008 9:16 pm Post subject: Re: New Pictures.

Kathy and Patience (thanks for the replies)

The house is on 20 acres (pictures 1,3,4,5 show the acreage and house). It really is beautiful and I'm looking forward to getting it back to being off grid. The dryland shots are of the 1.5 mile drive from a two lane desert highway. The home was off grid and there is a wind tower and a battery array setup, but the previous owners paid to have power ran to the house roughly a year before purchase. Here's a better shot of the house (it needs some finish work, but it's really overbuilt);

Here's an old abandoned diner just south of banks lake.

Well, this is a cool spot because I'm 32 miles from my computer business and 45 miles from my job at yahoo, so this a great place to make tenable and sustainable as possible while not being very far from where I make my living.
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Hagakure_Leofman · Posted: Sun Jun 29, 2008 4:12 am Post subject: Re: New Pictures.

i always enjoy looking at peoples places around the globe Smile

Heineken · Posted: Sun Jun 29, 2008 5:54 am Post subject: Re: New Pictures.

Me too. I like. Marred only by those power towers. An irony to have them standing there near you if get off the grid yourself.

That house looks solid as . . . a rock. And perfect for staying cool.

Thanks for the effort of sharing the pics, Rogo.
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DomusAlbion · Posted: Sun Jun 29, 2008 6:43 am Post subject: Re: New Pictures.

Ah, the Scab Lands of Central Washington. There used to be topsoil there similar to the Palouse of Eastern Washington, but at the end of the last ice age Lake Missoula's ice dam broke and a torrent of water ran down the Spokane river into the Columbia river down over what is now Dry Falls. The soil was scoured down to the bed rock and it's taken 10,000 years to rebuild a meager layer of top soil. Starkly beautiful.
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Olaf · Posted: Sun Jun 29, 2008 6:45 am Post subject: Re: New Pictures.

Excellent. Have to agree on loving seeing the pictures.

Olaf
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socrates1fan · Heavy Crude Joined: Jun 04, 2008 Posts: 284

As much as I love thick woods and rushing rivers I have to say that place has a sort of charm to it.
Like the developing of a planet or some sort of region of a different world.
Its quiet beautiful, I could imagine it must be amazing when its foggy.

Kingcoal · Posted: Sun Jun 29, 2008 10:18 am Post subject: Re: New Pictures.

Very beautiful pics, thanks. You might want to rebuild the outhouse though, you might need it. One of the funniest things I ever saw was an outhouse on an old farm here in PA which had three seats - right next to each other! "Charming Single family farm house, three bedroom, three bath" Makes me wonder about the conversations that took place in there! Evidently, farmers in the 1800's were a lot less bashful and a lot more practical than us.
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eXpat · Light Sweet Crude Joined: Jun 08, 2006 Posts: 1033

Beatiful pics Rogozhin, thank for sharing, i wish i had a place like that Smile

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taizee · Tar Sands Joined: Jun 22, 2008 Posts: 52

Really nice pictures, nice place and very DRY ! The outhouse looks ......... out there.. great view !

Rogozhin · Posted: Mon Jun 30, 2008 8:16 pm Post subject: Re: New Pictures.

I wanted to post two more pictures, one of the south end of banks (and that little town is coulee city, basically a small village where I'll try to make some contacts) from the cutoff and one of the bigger dust-devils out in the harvested dryland just west of the property.

taizee

It is really dry, but there has been more rainfall over the last few years (and more snow the last two)! I'll probably be back up there next week and I'll take some pictures from the deck (really great views)! I really want to get the outhouse fixed up, I've only used old outhouses when I was a kid growing up on my grandfathers orchard. Thanks for the reply!

expat

I've always wanted a place like this, it reminds me of where I grew up! Thanks!

Kingcoal

I'll be rebuilding it, thanks for the reply!

socrates1fan

It's stange about the topology that one enjoys and feels at home in. I've lived in the woods and though it's beautiful I've never felt at home, but this desolate beauty of the desert is comforting! There isn't much fog out here, but at dusk there is a slight mist that settles over the coulee. Smile

Olaf

Me too!

DomusAlbion

The scablands are southeast of the coulee (on the top of the plateau the soil is deep and rich), I'm right on the transition!

Heineken

The irony won't be lost on me as those are some of the primary power lines from grand coulee to seattle! Some windbreak trees and a few shade trees and it'll be much cooler (The house was not oriented correctly for solar gain unfortunately). I enjoy taking pictures so it doesn't feel like effort! Thanks

Hagakure_leofman

Yup!

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Heineken · Posted: Mon Jun 30, 2008 8:43 pm Post subject: Re: New Pictures.

So incredibly different from Piedmont Virginia. Except on farms and in developed areas, you're lucky if you can see 500 feet in any direction here. The land rolls, the roads twist and turn and rise and fall, and there are trees everywhere.
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Rogozhin · Posted: Mon Jun 30, 2008 9:44 pm Post subject: Re: New Pictures.