I was wondering if any of you Texas surveyors left this:
...in this cabin at Paulina Lake in Oregon?
This is sort of funny. For the past 26 years a group of friends who all worked at Century West Engineering (we are now all ex-Century West employees) have been getting together for a weekend of cross country skiing at Paulina Lake. We ski up to the lake, rent a bunch of cabins, go for day trips around the lake, have big pot-luck dinners and generally whoop it up.
We were up at Paulina last weekend and a couple of my friends (both PLS’s) found the above tome in their cabin. They thought it was mine (!) and since neither of them wanted it I became the proud owner by default. I haven’t read the book in its entirety yet, but the first three chapters are fairly interesting – covering the history of Texas and the various methods in which land was granted.
Here are some photos of where this orphaned book has been vacationing:
The lake isn’t as blue as the topo map would lead you to believe:
Paulina Lake is a big fishing destination in the summer. This time of year they don’t have to worry about people fishing from the dock:
This year was a full moon and the clouds broke enough Saturday night light up the night:
Surveyors are like rock stars at a gathering like this, averaging 2.5 groupies per surveyor
You are in a very nice place (level) (attitude) (stage of evolution), Mr. Mike Berry.
Very happy for you.
Wish we all could be there too.
We all will be, though, eventually.
🙂
Don
> Wish we all could be there too.
That’d be great.
It's not that far from “not far from Yosemite” Don... come on up next January and we will get you outfitted with skis, point you up the hill and, when your altimeter reads 6331, fill you up with Oregon microbrews and howl at the moon.
I think that Dick Bryant worked inTexas for a while, don't know if he got licensed there or not.
Maybe the previous guardian for that Tejas book is just up the road a skosh?
We didn't even think of him Kevin (and Pete M., who found the book, is his cousin by marriage, many times removed). I think Dick was deep in the heart of Texas in the 80s and this book is copyrighted in 1995, but next time I see him I'll ask.
Just checked on line and Dick was filing surveys here until Decmeber of 1993 under his own company's name and then didn't file another until Sept. of 1995 with DEA, so maybe he went back to Texas for a while. That'd be pretty wild if the book was his.
What a great tradition.
Being snowed in around Northeast Texas more than a day or so has only happened a few times in my lifetime and I can only remember one winter back in the 70's that it froze over the sloughs where the crew was able to make short work of a few hundred acres of bottom land along the north bank of the Sulphur River.
B-)
Looks just like Lake Texhoma
Wow, when I first saw those photos, I thought you were vacationing at Lake Texhoma. Aside from the snow and the claustrophobic feeling of being hemmed in by conifers, all of those photos could have been snapped there. Well, there are a few other minor details, but otherwise, it's a dead ringer for Lake Texhoma.
Looks just like Lake Texoma
Thanks Kent, you’re too kind. Of course we all know that Paulina Lake is no Lake Texoma . Sure, in the 1970s the state tourism office tried to bill Paulina Lake as the “Lake Texoma of the Pacific Northwest”, but Texas threatened legal action and the state dropped both that ill-conceived campaign and its sister advertising venture of “Visit Crater Lake, the Possum Kingdom Lake of the West”. Both schemes were doomed from the start, trying to dupe innocent tourists into thinking the great beauty of a Texas reservoir:
… could be duplicated by a stock pond inconveniently constructed on a hillside:
Looks just like Lake Texhoma
> Wow, when I first saw those photos, I thought you were vacationing at Lake Texhoma. Aside from the snow and the claustrophobic feeling of being hemmed in by conifers, all of those photos could have been snapped there. Well, there are a few other minor details, but otherwise, it's a dead ringer for Lake Texhoma.
you might want to try a few therapy seesions to deal with that. 🙂
Looks just like Lake Texhoma
> you might want to try a few therapy seesions to deal with that. 🙂
"These woods ain't big enough for you and me both.." says Kent to his ego. 😀
Looks just like Lake Texhoma
> > Wow, when I first saw those photos, I thought you were vacationing at Lake Texhoma. Aside from the snow and the claustrophobic feeling of being hemmed in by conifers, all of those photos could have been snapped there. Well, there are a few other minor details, but otherwise, it's a dead ringer for Lake Texhoma.
>
> you might want to try a few therapy seesions to deal with that.
No, David Lynch could have reworked Mike's post into an episode or two of "Twin Peaks". Obviously, the fellow in the cabin who longed to move somewhere there was a real lake like Lake Texhoma, instead of some filled-up crater, wandered into the woods and was never seen again. He left only a book as evidence that he had ever been there once the locals hotwired his vehicle and drove it away.
Looks just like Lake Texhoma
I saw Dick Bryant at the PLSO conference last week, he is looking good.Texas didn't come up.
Took a look at Lake Texhoma on Google earth, huge!
I wonder how full it is now with the ongoing drought there.
Looks like Crater Lake
Looks like Crater Lake in Oregon!
I don't care who you are
comparing Lake Texhoma to the other, is just funny.
Looks just like Lake Texhoma
I think David Lynch would be more interested in Texas "lakes". I see Tour Guide Tim as a main character already.
The vanishing water has revealed the long-submerged building foundations of Woodville, Okla., which was flooded in 1944 when the Red River was dammed to form Lake Texoma. A century-old church has emerged at Falcon Lake, which straddles the Texas-Mexico border on the Rio Grande.
Are the hot springs any good up there this time of year?
Mike,
I expected much more of you. I would have thought that after you had to assist in carrying my carcass off of the top of Mt. Bachelor some 35 years ago, that you would have given up such "wilderness outings"!!!!!
Boy, those pics sure do bring back some memories (like 2nd degree hypothermia, sunburn, pneumonia, etc.)
Cheers!!!!!
Geezer;-)
I don't care who you are
> comparing Lake Texhoma to the other, is just funny.
I certainly thought it was. :>
Looks just like Lake Texhoma
Paul – I emailed Dick today and he replied the book was not his; he was in the republic in the mid-1980s and finally retired his TX license last year.
He said he got to looking around at the PLSO conference this year and realized he’s probably the oldest person there (78!). Jeez - If you’d just met him you’d think he was 55 or 60. Still drives around with kayak racks on his truck, goes out on archeology digs as a volunteer, still “cleaning up” some survey loose end work for one of his old developer clients in town. I think he found that fountain that Juan Ponce de León was searchin' for.
