From the snowcapped volcanoes of Oregon's Cascades to the arid beauty of the state's desert canyons, this 14-day adventure offers a stunning variety of environments and experiences. Swim in beautiful alpine lakes, raft thrilling whitewater and climb the most famous rocks in the Pacific Northwest.
Your trip begins at the Portland airport. After everyone has gotten off of his or her plane, you'll all assemble in the airport and meet each other for the first time. Excitement grows as everyone buzzes in anticipation to get started on your journey. Once you're all together, you'll head to your nearby campsite at the base of spectacular Mt. Hood for your first night of camping as a group. Settling in, it's a pretty exciting evening as you'll play games, get your first lesson in setting up camp, and enjoy your first frontcountry meal. Early the next morning in Bend, OR, you'll have a great opportunity to pick up some food and other necessary supplies for your first leg of wilderness travel. Even though it's only your second day together, you won't believe how much you've gotten to know your teammates already. Finally, you'll end your day discussing the area in which you are about to venture and familiarize yourself with the respective maps of the Three Sisters Wilderness.
Departing from lively Bend bright and early, you'll get well-acquainted with the Three Sisters Range as you hike along the Pacific Crest Trail. Your group's educational goals for this leg will be general wilderness travel, Leave No Trace principles, backcountry cooking, and route finding. You'll have plenty of time to discuss these elements throughout the day, but it will surely make for great campfire conversation as you settle down each night at some of the most picturesque sites imaginable. Finally, weather and conditions permitting, you'll be making a summit attempt on the South Sister before you depart from the area. A truly matchless view from the summit; at the top of your climb you'll be able to see a majority of the dramatic Cascade Range, including summits of Mt. Hood and even Mt. Rainier. With your first major trek through, and your trip as a whole off to a pretty astounding start, you'll depart the Three Sisters area and prepare for the next segment of your excursion.
Following the Three Sisters, you'll shower up, do some laundry, go food shopping, and then you're on the road again. Setting our sites up north, our next locale will be Smith Rock State Park. Smith Rock's high desert cliffs and crags are known as some of the best climbing in the USA. You and your group will spend time with expert local instructors who will teach you the ins and outs of rock climbing in this remarkable area. Eventually, once your climbing skills are superbly accomplished, you'll take on a well known route of the area, the Tyrolean traverse of the "Monkey's Face!" A challenging course, your reward will truly be as great as the obstacle you've overcome to get there, not to mention the unparalleled views while you're at it!
After your lofty experience at Smith Rock, your next activity will be a great change of pace but every bit as thrilling – whitewater rafting on the Deschutes River! You'll take a day to prepare for another few nights in the backcountry and then you'll hit the water. A truly distinct stretch of river, you'll find all the exhilaration you need throughout your time on the water. Where perfect weather is almost the norm, you'll take on rapids with names like "Rattlesnake" and "Buckskin Mary." Aside from learning how to negotiate your way through the whitewater, you'll spend a memorable night camping shore-side along the river, reliving the days excitement as you dry off and enjoy a well-earned dinner for the days' thrills.
Once you're off the water, you'll do your last round of showers and laundry as a group. You'll organize your gear and prepare to head back to the Portland area for your departure, as well as your group's end of summer banquet in Hood River. There, you'll gather round the dinner table to reminisce and talk about the good times had and never to be forgotten. Regretfully, the following morning you'll part ways with your heads and hearts full of memories of life-long friends.


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I am an artist, a teacher, and a graphic designer based in Brooklyn, NY. I divide my time between making mixed-media collages, finger painting with kids, and designing super-sassy business cards. My artwork is quite whimsical and aims to capture the world that lives inside my head.
Some of my favorite artists are Dr. Seuss, Gustav Hundertwasser, Antoni Gaudi, and Brian Andreas, who share a childlike quality in their work. Children are my favorite artists and I believe that all adult artists are striving to get back to a childlike state through art. I know that I am.
I have been an art teacher since 1998 and am passionate about my work with children. At Habitot Children's Museum in Berkeley, California, I ran the drop-in art studio for many years and taught art classes such as "Mixed Media Mania." I also taught art classes at various schools and art centers in the Bay Area before moving to Brooklyn in 2009.
I have a BA in Anthropology and Sociology from Goucher College in Baltimore, Maryland and an Associates Degree in Graphic Design from the Academy of Art University in San Francisco, California. Ultimately my goal is to spend my life creating in as many ways as possible and to get children so excited about art that they will want to do the same.


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Peripatetic West Edge Opera Heading to a Live Season in Orinda's Bruns Theater
Janos Gereben on February 9, 2021
"Tears of joy! It's happening. I've been rebuilding stamina and sharpening skills that have been sitting dormant for these last many months. So many emotions running through me. Indeed, I will be unmasked as Katya Kabanová."
Carrie Hennessey playing it safe
So exulted Carrie Hennessey when her properly masked photo was published in the announcement that she will sing the title role in Leoš Janáček's Katya Kabanová with West Edge Opera during its 2021 season.
The season will follow West Edge's usual appealing combination of a classic (Kabanová) with a seldom-performed old rarity (Eliogabalo), and a contemporary work (Elizabeth Cree).
Also "typically West Edge" is the new, unusual venue. The company that Richard Goodman founded in 1979 left its Julia Morgan Theater home in Berkeley a decade later for temporary quarters in El Cerrito, then moved on to the Freight & Salvage, Pacific Pipe, an abandoned train station, an Odd Fellows Hall, and more, has been all around the East Bay during its homeless years, and once again, the company has found a new, unusual, and promising venue.
The plan is for a live, "unstreamed" outdoor summer opera festival in partnership with the California Shakespeare Festival, in Cal Shakes' Bruns Amphitheater, in Orinda. "This partnership," says West Edge, "presents the opportunity for safety, collaboration, and most importantly, the opportunity to celebrate live arts again."
Orinda's outdoor Bruns Theater, where West Edge Opera will perform | Credit: California Shakespeare Festival
The festival opens on July 24, with Kabanová, running through Aug. 5. WEO Music Director Jonathan Khuner will conduct this haunting tale of a woman breaking free from the constraints of a conservative society, with tragic consequences. (See Khuner's comments below.)
Indre Viskontas directs. Soprano Carrie Hennessey will appear in the title role. Adler Fellow and Merola alum Christopher Oglesby will play her lover Boris. Kabanicha, Katya's tyrannical mother-in-law, will be sung by soprano Kristin Clayton. Mezzo-soprano Sarah Coit, another veteran of West Edge's 2019 festival, earning raves as Jenny Diver in The Threepenny Opera, will play Katya's young confidant, Varvara. Rounding out the cast will be tenor Alex Boyer, bass-baritone Philip Skinner, and tenor Chad Somors. The opera will be sung in Czech with English supertitles.
Katherine Pracht as Elizabeth Cree
From July 25 through Aug. 7, West Edge will present Elizabeth Cree by Kevin Puts and Mark Campbell. Premiered in 2017 by Opera Philadelphia, the piece follows a series of murders set against the backdrop of a Victorian Music Hall performance troupe with a series of cameo appearances from the luminaries of the era. This is the third opera by the team of Puts and Campbell, who wrote the Pulitzer Prize-winning Silent Night in 2011 and the The Manchurian Candidate in 2015.
Sam Helfrich will direct, making his West Edge debut. Robert Mollicone, who conducted The Chastity Tree in West Edge's 2017 festival, will be music director. Mezzo-soprano Katherine Pracht will reprise the role of Elizabeth Cree, having last performed it with Chicago Opera Theater in 2018. Keith Phares plays her husband, John Cree. Also in the Music-hall troupe are Samuel Faustine, Ashley Dixon, Kenneth Overton, Phillip Harris, Simon Barrad, Leslie Katter, and J Raymond Meyers. Elizabeth Cree will be sung in English with English supertitles.
Randall Scotting as Eliogabolo
July 31 through Aug. 8, the festival presents Francesco Cavalli's 1667 Eliogabalo, about a debauched and corrupt Roman emperor. Mark Streshinsky will direct, with Adam Pearl conducting from the harpsichord. Countertenor Randall Scotting will make his West Edge debut in the title role.
Tenor Derek Chester will return following his 2019 debut as Macheath in The Threepenny Opera, to play Eliogabalo's cousin and foil Alessandro. Soprano Nikki Einfeld will play Gemmira, the target of Eliogabalo's lust. Rounding out the cast are Shawnette Sulker, Jean-Paul Jones, Matheus Coura, Aura Veruni, and Jonathan Smucker.
Music Director Khuner, preparing to lead Kabanová, told SF Classical Voice:
"I've always loved the idiosyncratic art of Leoš Janáček, especially the amazing identity between the expressive sound-world of each of his opera scores and the psychological world of each of the dramas he chose to set."
What is special for you in Kabanová?
Music Director Jonathan Khuner | Credit: Eliot Khuner
"To me, it's undeniable proof that total commitment to what one has to say, a deep human compulsion, can lead to a composer's mastery of artistic form. Notably, Katya Kabanová blends a moderately folkloristic (Eastern European) style of old-fashioned musical elements (melodic, harmonic, and timbral) with a modern sense of incompleteness, of easy conclusions denied.
"The 20th century malaise of expectations/hopes dashed, and of deliberate anxious dreariness about traditional repressive culture, are direct historical outgrowths of what the Russian playwright [Alexander] Ostrovsky was expressing in The Storm [the source of the opera's story].
"Thus the response of a 'modern' (1920s) citizen of Czechoslovakia such as Janáček to the still-lingering atmosphere of antimodern Czarist Russia, as well as his own personal problems of finding a satisfying, liberating relationship to an ideal woman, is completely natural and genuine."
How does the music reflect the story's conflicts?
"Kabanová haunts from the first measure to the last. It deals relentlessly with the battle of souls between society and individual, and is as timeless in meaning as it is specific in historical setting."
Given the pandemic constraints (and budget considerations), how do you handle orchestra size?
"Creating for West Edge Opera a chamber reduction of the original large orchestration (while consulting the Charles Mackerras edition) hasn't been a massive musical challenge, although it took me a great deal of time and care. It turns out that Janáček's unique palette of instruments can be rather well imitated with a group of 25, and in any case we'll have the true sounds of the words, since we'll be performing in the original Czech language, with English supertitles.
"I look forward to giving this masterpiece West Edge's signature intimate touch for our audience, in an outdoor setting which promises to echo the forces of nature that are summoned by Katya Kabanová's dramatic themes," Khuner said.
Janos Gereben appreciates news tips, corrections, and words of encouragement at [email protected].
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Michael Zwiebach - October 20, 2020
With the announcement of serious creative talents and fascinating works in development, West Edge's Aperture becomes a major site for the development of American opera.
Another Opening to Opera From an Edgy Company
Michael Zwiebach - September 9, 2020
West Edge Opera comes up with another program to foster new works, creativity, and inclusion during our season of discontent.
Beethoven Meets Black Lives Matter in Heartbeat Opera's Breathing Free
Lou Fancher - February 2, 2021
The collaborative song cycle melding prison choirs, professional musicians, and cinematographers in a mashup of Fidelio, Black composers, and more streams this month.
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LW Sports is excited to host a kids soccer program here in Houston.
Our teams are parent/volunteer coached.
*Space is limited! Registrations will be taken on a first come, first serve basis. No refunds (just a league credit) will be given.
With each registration each player will receive a game jersey, shorts and socks.
Practices: 1 hour each week on either M, T, Th, F evenings at 6 or 7pm.
Player evaluations/uniform fitting is January 19!
Practices start the week of January 28!


70 routes, each one more beautiful than the other, an heritage belonging to our regions and our French terroir, totalling almost 7000 km of roads ... tourist, gastronomic, sporty, panoramic and mythic routes.
The road is YOUR adventure, live it like in a cinema with your windscreen as a screen.
Alexandre Pierquet is not only a roadtrip lover but also a radio commentator and a newspaper columnist. Besides, he also organizes car rallys and trips in classic cars.
- Ours compagny can order original travelling for individuals or groups.
- Suggested countries : France, Germany, Italy, Ireland, England, Scotland, Belgium, Austria, Switzerland.
A gastronomic and panoramic rally… on mythical roads.
Crossed this date, rates will be adjusted according to the availability of hotels and prices practised by each of them at the time of your request.
Departing from « Gérardmer lake » to « the Peak route », local farm products tasting in a typical farm inn. Arrival at Mulhouse and the visit of the Schlumpf collection, cocktail (in the garage of the classic car museum.) Diner and night in the hotel**** having belonged to the Schlumpf brothers.
Departing from Mulhouse via « the Alsace wine road » along vineyards and typical villages, wine tasting and lunch in an authentic restaurant. Arrival at Riquewirh (a romantic village), gourmet diner and night in a charming hotel.
Departing from Riquewirh to Molsheim, wine tasting (Cuvée Bugatti), lunch in an Alsatian restaurant. Then we will reach Hochfelden, beer tasting, in a family owned brewery.


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Neverland Ranch on sale for $100m
Aerial view of Michael Jackson's Neverland Ranch near Los Olivos, California. Looking toward the South, the main carnival ride area is to the North.(Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Michael Jackson's infamous Neverland Ranch is on sale for—wait for it—$100 million.
The headlining 2,700-acre home—listed under its official title, Sycamore Valley Ranch—hit the market in May, and on Monday, NBC's Jon Fryer landed a rare tour of the expansive property.
Jackson bought the ranch back in 1987 for a modest $19.5 million and converted the property into a Peter Pan-inspired amusement park featuring a 12,000-square-foot mansion as its center attraction.
In 2005, Neverland was notoriously host to a series of child molestation accusations against the pop star, who was charged and then later acquitted.
Colony Capital purchased the property from Jackson prior to the King of Pop's death in 2009 for just $22.5 million.
While the amusement park rides and live circus animals may be long cleared of the estate, some select features of the cooky property remain intact, including a large flower-adorned clock and a 50 person movie theatre designed by Jackson himself.
Also intact? A stunning view of the ranch's four square miles overlooking Mount Catherine, which earned its namesake from Jackson's mother.
Feel like putting your name in the hat for a piece of Neverland? Don't fret, the lucky buyer will be free to alter the property to his or her content. The hope, however, is that the notorious property retains some of its obscure yet famed heritage.
AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster
"We still have an affinity for Michael and a deep respect for Michael's legacy," KyleForsyth of Colony Capital said on Today, adding, "Michael's vision was to take the ranch back to its natural setting and to sell the ranch eventually. So, we're just following through with our original vision."
No word yet on what's in store for the striking estate. But if we had to guess, we'd say the $100 milion price tag is nothing short of admissible for this truly sensational palace of home.
-eonline
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