#mt hood tours

[terrantravels]

Oregon Waterfall Wonders: Revealing the Experience of the Mt. Hood Wine and Waterfall Tour

Many of the breathtaking waterfalls that dot Oregon's varied landscapes tumble down deep valleys and lush- woods. The Mt. Hood Wine and Waterfall Tour is the ideal experience for anyone looking for a special fusion of luxury and nature. It includes tastings at nearby wineries along with an excursion through the breathtaking Columbia River Gorge and Mt. Hood foothills.

Some of the most stunning and easily accessible waterfalls during your Oregon waterfall tours can be seen in the Columbia River Gorge, a natural wonder. Multnomah Falls, Oregon's biggest waterfall, which plunges 620 feet in two stunning tiers, is one of the tour's initial attractions. As your guide explains the history and geology of this fascinating monument, you will be able to enjoy breath-taking vistas and experience the mist from the falls while standing on the famous Benson Bridge.

Other breathtaking waterfalls like Wahkeena Falls and Horsetail Falls, each with its own distinct flow and surrounding vegetation, are frequently visited as part of the journey. You may stretch and enjoy the fresh mountain air at these breaks, which also provide great photo possibilities. In order to provide visitors the opportunity to explore the dense evergreen forest and establish a connection with the region's dynamic environment, guides frequently organize brief walks along paths.

The journey continues into Oregon's wine country near Mount Hood after taking in the breathtaking waterfalls. Here, grapes flourish because of the area's rich volcanic soil and temperate temperature. Tastings at small vineyards surrounded by picturesque rolling hills with breathtaking views of Mount Hood are a common element of the Mt. Hood wine waterfall tour.

Pinot Noir from Oregon is well known, and a tasting here is the ideal way to learn about the region's highly regarded grapes. A variety of regional wines, such as lively whites like Riesling and Pinot Gris, which are ideal for the chilly temperature, are frequently sampled by tour participants. Winery employees make the tasting experience both entertaining and instructive by sharing their knowledge of the winemaking process.

The Mt. Hood Wine and Waterfall Tour is the perfect excursion for friends, couples, and single people alike since it combines the refinement of Oregon's wine area with the serenity of its waterfalls. Experience the enchantment of Oregon's wines and waterfalls by scheduling your trip right now. They go hand in hand like the Pacific Northwest itself.

[terrantravel]

Explore Oregon’s Natural Beauty through Guided Tours

It’s crucial to plan your visit wisely to see as much of the state as you can in the little amount of time you have. Because of this, we’ve gathered some of the top guided tours to make your Mt Hood Oregon Tours unforgettable!

[dystopianam]

Clean Maxis & Custom Neighborhoods Templates with Premade Sims! - Masterpost

UPDATED: NOVEMBER 18 (2024)

Do you love premades but get bored of constantly resetting neighborhoods and of ending up doing the same things over and over again? With this list I offer you some alternatives! Same sims...but with a little...more! Feel free to recommend me others if you know other neighborhoods like these!

Look here for other masterposts!

⚠️ ALWAYS USE THE HOODCHECKER AFTER INSTALLING A NEW NEIGHBORHOOD AND/OR ADDING A SUBHOOD. The HC will clean up messy memories, fix IDs incorrectly associated to other sims, and recover missing tombstones and urns. Always have no-unlink on deleted in your download folder for avoid unlinked character data and use the Urnstone Spawner for respawn manually the tombstones if the HC fail to recover them.

Clean Neighborhoods

meetmetotheriver's clean neighborhoods - HERE and HERE.

Pleasantview with Tutorial Joe and Jane by CroconawSims

Clean Veronaville with fixed scripted events by CroconawSims

Fixed Maxis Universities (Reupload) by CroconawSims

Clean Pleasantview without Bella Goth by CroconawSims

Clean Bluewater Village With All Townies And NPCs by CroconawSims

Belladonna Cove with poorer families by CroconawSims

Clean Belladonna Cove with townies and NPCs by CroconawSims

Clean Desiderata Valley With Townies and NPCs by CroconawSims

Clean Riverblossom Hills With Townies and NPCs by CroconawSims

Clean Pleasantview Plus: Restored Ancestral Sims & Genetic Infant Faces by ivycopur

Strangetown with Genetic Infant Faces (+Subhood Ver.) by Ivycopur

Clean Riverblossom Hills with Scripted Events by CupcakeLeaf

Genetically Correct Clean Template Strangetown With Scripted Events by TheDudeWithTheDragonTattoos

Genetically Correct Clean Template Pleasantview with Scripted Events by TheDudeWithTheDragonTattoos

Genetically Correct and Fixed Veronaville for UC by LordCrumps

Clean Bon Voyage 'Stealth' Neighbourhood by IAmTheRad

Fixed Maxis Strangetown by Dorsal Axe

Pleasantview Clean Template: Maxis Townies + Sim State University by theneonplumb

My Perfect Pleasantview by Pleasantsims

Cleopatra Capp's Clean/Fixed Strangetown Template by queencleopatracapp

Veronaville Clean Template: Maxis Townies + Academie Le Tour by theneonplumb

MeetMe Verona with Townies by sunradersims

Clean Riverblossom Hills with Genetic Infant Faces + subhood version by Kingakicia2001

Sim State University with Genetic Infant Faces by Kingakicia2001

La Fiesta Tech with Genetic Infant Faces by Kingakicia2001

Académie Le Tour Genetic Infant Faces by Kingakicia2001

EDITED Maxis Neighborhoods

Alternative Neighborhoods by @dreadpirate

Alt Pleasantview V2

Alt Strangetown V2

Alt Veronaville V2

Alt Riverblossom Hills V2

...with a Twist! by @strangetomato

Pleasantview...with a twist!

Strangetown...with a twist!

In Castaway style! by @lordcrumps

Paraiso En Las Rocas (If I can, I would also recommend to download the empty version (or populated, if you don't mind mixing up premades and OCs) of Paraiso En El Mar, because I think they complement each other. PEEM has so many gorgeous community lots! You can use PEEM as Main and PELR as subhood or do the opposite. Personally I would fill the empty version of PEEM with the DV, RVH and BC premades (or just choose some of them) since PELR has all the PV, ST and VV premades + one from BWV)

Early Neighborhoods

Early Pleasantview by @gutosimmer

Early Strangetown by @gutosimmer

Pleasantview 25 years earlier (+ ancestors & infant faces) by Kingakicia2001

From the beginning hoods project on MTS...even more early! The beginning of...

... Pleasantview Plus! (2024 update with infant faces)

...Strangetown Plus! (2024 update with infant faces)

...Veronaville Plus! (2024 update with infant faces)

Strange...neighborhoods! by @chrisnewbie

Strangertown (PC Strangetown + PSP ST)

Strangeytown (DS Strangetown + GBA ST)

Pleasantview Edits!

New Pleasantview by @simstate

Pleasantfort by @khal-ulti

Strangetown Edits!

New Strangetown by @simstate

Veronaville Edits!

Veronaville 2.0 by @delijume-sims

Veronaview by @lordcrumps

Veronaville: Brainstorm by @push-tet

Riverblossom Hills Edits!

Katatty's Riverblossom Hills by @katatty

Desiderata Valley Edits!

Katatty's Desiderata Valley by @katatty

Bluewater Village Edits!

Bluewater Village makeover by @plumbtales

Here...something's not right...?? 🤔🥴

Genderswapped Uberhood by sushigal007

Pleasantview but with inverted aspirations by @sasquatch-lizard

Strangetown but with inverted aspirations by @sasquatch-lizard

Veronaville but with inverted aspirations by @sasquatch-lizard

Swapped Strangetown by @katatty

Empty Neighborhoods

There is no one here??

All Maxis Neighborhood Empty (No Sims) and Clean by @jawusa (Main + Subhoods)

Downtown Edits

GET ON LOSER, LET'S GO TO THE CLUB

Downtown makeover by @katatty

Downtown Revamp by TheDudeWithTheDragonTattoos

University campuses 📓

SSU + LFT + ALT by @katatty

Vacation neighborhoods

Three Lakes by @plumbtales

Twikki Island with townie's infant faces by Kingakicia2001

Three Lakes with townie's infant faces by Kingakicia2001

Takemizu Village with townie's infant faces by Kingakicia2001

Stealth neighborhoods

Magic subhood with Genetic Infant Faces by Kingakicia2001

Pets subhood with Genetic Infant Faces by Kingakicia2001

Hobbies subhood with Genetic Infant Faces by Kingakicia2001

Exotic Destinations Subhood with Genetic Infant Faces by Kingakicia2001

[what-have-i-unleashed]

very sad to see dust x classic probably not winning because i have an awesome idea where dust is figuratively and literally sans' doppelganger in a pacifist timeline. if it's not winning then i might as well spoil my half-baked idea here already for anyone interested in picking it up :)

this story would follow a pacifist undertale timeline sans as he enjoys his life on the surface with his friends and family. things are well and good.

until one day, sans sees a doppelganger in the crowd, a figure in a jacket similar to his but with their hood up. he doesn't think of it much, and he's not particularly superstitious to be much spooked anyway.

sans works as a standup comedian at a metattton-brand restaurant, so he's fairly famous with some followers. he's particular about not interacting too much with fans, but he does engage with their online questions from time to time. and he has some new online friends, as well as new in-person friends from his gigs. he can be somewhat busy now, but it's not too much that he can't handle.

at first, it's only trivial stuff like people remarking about him going to places he doesn't remember going to. then, it's some few online accounts sending him worrying messages that pry into his private life, asking him about his relationship with his friends, with his brother whom he rarely talks about. he blocks them, but that uneasy feeling doesn't go away.

and then, he's on a small tour, his first one actually. he just needs to leave mt. ebott for a few weeks. things get weirder. he starts spotting his doppelganger more often, but surely that's just a fan right? nothing to be paranoid about.

until he gets ambushed in the dressing room that is, after his last show in the tour, by that same doppelganger he's seen so many times. "i've been watching you for a long time," they say with a huge smile on their face. something's wrong.

cut to when the tour ends and everyone goes back home. papyrus, now a culinary student, is very happy for sans for having his big break as a budding comedian on the surface. when he goes to greet his brother, sans holds him for a little bit too tight, seeming to be shaking just a little bit.

"i quit comedy," sans says, which surprises papyrus. "i focus too much on my job that i forget about everyone and everything important to me. especially you, bro. i promise it won't happen again."

papyrus is confused, reassuring sans that having a career he likes is all fine. but sans only shakes his head, only gripping onto papyrus' scarf harder.

"it's okay. i didn't know how important things are until they were lost to me. but never again. i got everything i need here. i don't need anything else."

[rurpleplayssims]

More hood decoration for Campbell Quay! 🦺

I've been inspired by @teaaddictyt after watching her tutorial on Lot Adjuster and her tour of her Military subhood! This gave me an idea and as a result, I've made up an entrance to a mysteriously private area across the river from the town. 👀

My only issue - I downloaded the Mayhaven hood from MTS, as that is the template I use for CQ. However, I had to manually replace the bridges used as the originals weren't the ones default replaced by Criquette. However, I cannot find replacements for this 'Paved road' for love nor money.

EDIT: I think I need the recolour for this set for the road piece. Does anybody know if it's been done?

🙏If anybody has the answer, please link it below! 🤷‍♀️ Thank you! 😘

[rebeccathenaturalist]

It’s Tell a Friend Friday!

Please enjoy this photo I took of Wy'east (Mt. Hood) a few years ago on a backpacking trip on Section G of the Pacific Crest Trail.

Then tell someone you know about my work–you can reblog this post, or send it to someone you think may be interested in my natural history writing, classes, and tours, as well as my upcoming book, The Everyday Naturalist. Here’s where I can be found online:

Website - http://www.rebeccalexa.com

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Finally, if you like what I’m doing here, you can give me a tip at http://ko-fi.com/rebeccathenaturalist

[squaretable-sims]

Make your own UberHood with all the townies!

Yes! You!  At this stage, to my knowledge, you can only do this the lazy way when creating an Uberhood new, from scratch. It may well be possible - but IDK. The ancestors... well thats a hard job which I dont think anyone wants to tackle. Not all of these subhoods add the NPCs, but most do. Its hit and miss. But thats part of the fun I guess!

Base Game

Pleasantview This is easy, meetme already did the work for us. Thanks Komei, Goopy, I guess you were too iconic. Their Simblr Here.

Strangetown Sunrader has subhoodified Dorsal Axe’s Fixed Strangetown. Dorsal Axe’s is a dream for purists who merely wish to not borkify their games. Find Sunrader’s Website here. 

Veronaville

Once again, Sunrader comes to the rescue. They used A technique of their own invention to extract Townies and NPCs, added them to MeetMe’s template, and then converted to a subhood. Once again, their website is here.

University

Introducing ZachJohnUnlimited on MTS. While he has gone through the process of adding Townies and NPCs to MeetMe’s Bluewater Village, Riverblossom Hills and Desiderata Valley using CAS, this is their work from scratch, and includes all of the Dormies plus extra lore.  Find Sim State University, La Fiesta Tech and Academie Le Tour on their MTS Post here. 

Nightlife

Downtown Did you know all the Downtownies were made in CAS? I didn’t. Yes, that includes Joy Despret Lakshmi Byall. Find them on Meetme’s Livejournal, the place which started this all.

Open for Business, Seasons and Freetime

Bluewater Village Zach has manually recreated the townies which werent yeeted by meetme, here in Bluewater Village. Get it from MTS here.

Riverblossom Hills As above, plus a version with the RBH NPCs. Get it from MTS here.

Desiderata Valley As above again. Get it from MTS here

Apartment Life

Belladonna Cove I did the work of converting TheNeonPlumb’s CAS work myself. Get the deetz on that thread. This and Downtown are the only ones with no NPCs. Get it from my Simblr here. 

Bon Voyage

I don’t think there are clean templates. Can someone let me know if there is one? Twikkii Island and especially Takemizu Village are diabolical. Three Lakes gets a pass (a mountain pass, hahaha). Just use the ones that ship with the game, god. Unrelated, ProfesionalPartyGuest has done a good job at making Locals which are less terrible. click on the hood names earlier to find em.

Thanks to @knut-rocketman who helped me with putting this list together over discord when I was off my face on Vertigo medication (I made my game into a BFBVS several times). Jawusa’s empty hoods might also be of use.

[lianreine]

Yuu's first day in Nrc

To explain today is my first day if my new school and in honor of that im making this if yuu gets chosen by the mirror mid schoolyear

Ill be making Yuu have the experience i had because...yes

(I lost my border-)

Mc pov

My alarm woke me up as some family members also yell at me tow ake up at 5:30am

I groan and turn off my alarm grabbing my id (and glasses and whatever)

I walk down stairs as they gave me a sandwich to eat

And i realized i left my hair clip in the other part of my house..

"You dont have time yuu!"

Your guardian yells

"ILL MAKE IT!"

I say as i run to to the other house

I turn iver 3 boxes and find it in the last one, quickly going down the staurs and locking the door with the key and closing the gate as i run to my main home

I styled my hair (whatever you want) and tied my shoes when the carriage arrived

"Im going now!"

I yell as i approach the carriage

"Good luck! Stay safe!"

My guardian yelled...

When i arrived in nrc my coffin opens as slow fog comes out...i wear the iconic ceremonial robe...but...Crowley is my uncle...maybe id mess with him for a bit..

Crowley pov

I open the coffin and fog comes out as i realize that Yuu isnt in there

"Yuu!?"

They appears behind my sitting on the air stealing my hat and putting it on their head without their hood on

"Yes, uncle?"

They smile

"Yuu, get down! Or ill tell your guardian about this"

I say slightly annoyed to be played around infront of mt other students

"Arent you my other guardian though?"

They flip ny hat off their head cathing before taking out a joker card

"Dont you already know me?"

I sigh and grab my hat back from them...

Mc pov

I step to the mirror and say my name...the mirror chooses my dorm...

"(The dorm you want)"

Heartslabyul : Riddle feels a headache coming in... cater takes a selfie with you as deuce and ace talk to you with trey offering you some treats

Crowley sighed in relief

"Oh thank god they're in the dorm of rules.."

Savanaclaw: Leona doesn't really care...but introduced himself he thinks your trouble for the dorm though...Jack thinks your interesting and he talked to you first...ruggie showd you around savanaclaw and you two were friends with you twin mischief

Crowley:...sh*t

Octavinelle: Azul thinks your power is unique and might just get it...till you kept tricking hom with his tries of a contract...congratulations you got floyd and jade interested in you. Happy eel school year my dear yuu.

Crowley:...they're gonna die

Scarabia: Kalim happily greets you willing to tour you the whole scarabia...while jamil calmly calms him and sees you as trouble till her realizes you actually not that bad and willingly helped you alot of times

Crowley:...they're gonna melt-

Pomefiore: Vil just looked at your form. Your hair. And he simply said "..a bit of makeup...maybe fixing the hair...and...mhm...this will be fine" and Rook was so delighted to have someone as interesting as you complementing your every move while epel was just glad to have a friend in this.

Crowley:...how the f-

Ignihyde: Ortho kindly greeted you and welcomed you with open arms touring you of the place and even introduced you to his big brother "nee-san!"(is that right-) "i brought the new student" Idia actually got along with you and ortho was happy you and idia do gaming tournaments

Crowley:...hEh?

Diasomnia: Lilia greets you happily and introduces you to Mal... You know who he is but gladly greeted him as any other student making him smile and even Lilia taking interest. Silver usually uses you as on the go pillow...and you told sebek about your problems with loud noises and he understands and tries to not yell around you

Crowley: AYE SAME DORM AS ME♡

TO BE COUNTINUED CAUSE IM TIRED EHE

[ereardon]

Help me pick my September vacay!!

OK so my dad and my husband are the KINGS of procrastination when it comes to planning. The three of us are going to do a trip second week of September before my husband starts his job at the law firm, so help us pick a destination. We were originally going to do Oregon but now my dad is a worry wart about the air quality with the fires. I'm hoping to go somewhere cooler because North Carolina is not it right now 😓 Boston is on here twice because my husband has never been and it's where his parents met so he'd like to see it. Ya girl has sweated her ass off on Boston college tours back in the day but marriage is compromise right?

[propertytours]

Mount Hood Village - 273, Mt Hood Village, OR - Virtual Tour

Mount Hood Village - 273, Mt Hood Village, OR - Virtual TourPhoto Slideshow Photo Gallery – Responsive Nearby Places Map Read the full article

[terrantravels]

Explore the Natural Wonders of Oregon with Oregon Waterfall Tours and the Wine & Waterfall Tour of Mount Hood

Cascade waterfalls and wine tasting are two of Oregon's most famous experiences, and they can be combined on excursions that will never be forgotten. The state is known for its breathtaking scenery. Discovering Oregon waterfall tours or taking a wine and waterfall tour atop Mt. Hood, together, provide a cool and picturesque opportunity to take in the natural splendor of the state. Some of the most spectacular waterfalls in the Pacific Northwest can be found in Oregon, and each one presents a different angle on the state's amazing natural splendor. These undiscovered beauties may best be discovered by waterfall excursions, which lead through verdant woods, moss-covered cliffs, and serene riverbanks.

Beyond the Columbia River Gorge, Oregon boasts other waterfall hotspots like Silver Falls State Park, where the "Trail of Ten Falls" lets you walk behind several waterfalls, and Tamolitch Blue Pool, where water tumbles into a strikingly blue basin. Whether you're an avid hiker or just looking for a leisurely nature walk, Oregon has plenty of waterfalls to offer.

One of the most popular waterfall destinations is the Columbia River Gorge, where visitors can see Multnomah Falls, the tallest waterfall in the state, dropping 620 feet over two tiers. Other notable waterfalls in the gorge include Latourell Falls, Wahkeena Falls, and Horsetail Falls, all easily accessible from scenic hiking trails.

The Mt. Hood Wine & Waterfall Tour is the ideal way for anyone who like the great outdoors and great wine from Oregon. This trip takes you on a picturesque tour throughout the Mt. Hood region, including stops at local wineries and beautiful waterfalls. Mt. Hood, Oregon's highest peak, provides a spectacular background for this excursion. As you go, you'll see the famous peak covered in snow and waterfalls including Punchbowl Falls and Little Zigzag Falls. With their gorgeous surroundings and thick forests all around, these waterfalls provide the ideal setting for unwinding and getting back in touch with nature.

The tour also includes visits to some of the greatest wineries in the area, where you can taste wines produced locally from grapes cultivated in the Columbia Valley's volcanic soil. High-quality Pinot Noir, Riesling, and Chardonnay are produced in the region, and many of the vineyards have expansive vistas of Mount Hood. Visitors to wine tastings frequently gain a greater understanding of the craftsmanship that goes into each bottle by being provided with insights into the winemaking process.

[terrantravel]

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[if-you-fan-a-fire]

"In 1942, at CPS [Civilian Public Service] camp number 21, tucked into the Columbia River Gorge near Cascade Locks, Oregon, the conscientious objectors in residence put up the rare sustained protest against the federal policy of removing Japanese Americans from the West Coast and locking them up in internment camps. Or at least they fought the aspect of it they could hope to defeat. The men battled (nonviolently) to prevent the removal of one of their number, a pacifist and conscientious objector named George Yamada, who was the only Japanese American on hand. Most of the two hundred men at the camp fought fires, built and maintained trails, and did other conservation work in the nearby Mt. Hood National Forest. Yamada, born in 1918, had grown up on a farm in Nebraska, the son of a man who had emigrated from Japan in 1902 to avoid military service.

The family was Methodist, but Yamada stopped going to services when he was twelve because

I was not impressed by the social application in daily life of Christian teachings. From that age my interpretation of the Gospel of Christ was uncompromisingly pacifist, and I was determined to carry out the pacifist premises of the Christian gospel as I perceived them.

At nineteen, chafing under his father’s authority, Yamada moved to San Francisco. There he worshipped at the Evangelical Reformed Church in the Nikkei community, where the new minister was a pacifist. At San Francisco State, one of his professors introduced him to a visiting A. J. Muste (who led the assembled in singing “God Bless America”). Yamada was certified a CO [Conscientious Objector] by his draft board and arrived at Cascade Locks two days before Pearl Harbor. He arrived in time to meet Bayard Rustin, who visited on a speaking tour for the Fellowship of Reconciliation. At Cascade Locks, Yamada read about Buddhism (his family’s faith in Japan) in the Encyclopedia Britannica with the Hollywood heartthrob Lew Ayres, famous as Dr. Kildare, who had arrived in March of 1942. A vegetarian and free thinker, Ayres risked his career for his pacifist principles and stayed only six weeks. He would eventually serve as an army medic. He was, Yamada recalled, “a man unaffected by fame.”

When the War Relocation Authority demanded that Yamada be transferred to an internment camp, he protested, and the director at Cascade Locks, Reverend Mark Schrock, refused to comply. Yamada also had the support of the other men in camp. Kermit Sheets, one of the COs, recalled:

Wow, that camp blew apart! Because here was a guy as isolated as you could be. We knew George, he was a conscientious objector, for crying out loud! He wasn’t going to send messages to Japan that would make them shoot us! The whole thing was absolutely ridiculous. Then we had loads of meetings as to how we were going to handle it when they came for George. It got extremely tense, verging on the melodramatic…wondering how many people should lie down in front of the car that was to take him away

Letters from Cascade Locks to camps around the country enlisted support from COs at those as well, including invitations for Yamada to relocate to one in Massachusetts, and a readiness, on the part of men in an Ohio camp, “to follow your lead in non-violent direct action if necessary.” Muste also weighed in. Ultimately the authorities settled for pointlessly relocating Yamada to a Mennonite camp near Colorado Springs, Colorado, where he remained for three years. During that time he spent eight days in the county jail as part of a CORE project to desegregate a local theater, after which he was transferred to the camp for incorrigibles at Germfask, Michigan.

There is a thin line sometimes between anarchism and anarchy. Marooned on Michigan’s rural Upper Peninsula adjacent to the Seney National Wildlife Refuge, the Germfask resisters demonstrated how easily radical protest can slide toward vanity and nihilism. At Germfask, some men simply refused to work while others drove foremen to distraction by doing everything slowly, partially, and wrong. Chopping down even a small tree would be a daylong project. When directed to clean out a truck platform, the men would spend the day sweeping out a portion. “We got to be experts at not working,” recalled Roy Kepler of his time at Germfask. “We became experts at digging a hole that never got dug.” The camp’s director, sensing the futility of trying to make anyone work and no doubt aware that the war was coming to an end, didn’t require anything, and in return the men tolerated their confinement. One sympathetic visitor was taken aback, just three months after the camp opened in 1944, to find

washrooms the filthiest anywhere, dining habits those of hogs, 75% of the men unshaven, unkempt and dirty, liquor being drunk in the dorms on Sunday morning at church time, almost no project work being done.

Germfask might have muddled along in this way had not the campers thoroughly antagonized their rural neighbors, in part by giving the impression that they would, “attempt to date girls in the high school library, in churches and on the street.” Things went from bad to worse when the press depicted a mutiny among idle COs lolling about on the U.P. while other American boys were fighting and dying overseas. Time ran an exposé of the “studied defiance” of the troublemakers, whom it called “guardhouse lawyers” for their skill at staying within the law while thwarting Selective Service officials. The magazine said these officials were

at their wit’s end. The problem that vexed them: how to deal with a group of draft-age Americans who have refused to fight, who now decline to work, and spend most of their waking hours finding new and more ostentatious ways of thumbing their noses at all authority.

Washington got involved, but nobody had any real answers—and meanwhile the camp descended into conflict and recrimination, with once moderate COs siding with the worst antagonists. The camp’s fourth director, a former serviceman only weeks on the job, resigned and called the CPS system “the re-establishment of slavery.”

When Kepler arrived on January 20, 1945, he recorded his impressions of a bunkhouse known as Tobacco Road, where he found a “Saturday night atmosphere of beer and mixed singing that was somehow pathetic and strained, a put-on performance to convince themselves they were Bohemian.” He told all this to the War Resisters League in New York, where an official responded with the same sort of question Selective Service officials were asking, and that parents would ask a generation later about some new young radicals:

Are they heroes, valiantly fighting a vicious set-up? Are they high-spirited pranksters, gaining a relief that keeps them sane? Are they psychopaths, revealing symptoms that need treatment?

To the extent that Americans respected “conchies,” it was because they stood on conscience. But many at Germfask belied the stereotype of devout war resisters too religious to kill. The crowded and smoky Tobacco Road dorm, so dubbed after Erskine Caldwell’s 1932 novel of backroads dissolution, featured late night poker games, a coffee pot going all the time, food lifted from the mess hall, and nude pinups all over the walls. Some Germfask campers took their campaign against sainthood into the surrounding communities. Delivered to the nearby town of Munising for a bit of leave, they disabled their vehicle by tampering with the engine and then got drunk at the local bars, where one got into a fight with a soldier outside.

A campaign of vandalism and sabotage at Germfask included clogging toilets, hiding light bulbs and silverware, and spreading an inch of flour on a floor, the better to write obscenities on it in coffee grounds. An even more embarrassing episode occurred on the night of January 30, when some of the men broke into the kitchen and, in a time of national food rationing, made a shambles of the place, dumping a hundred-pound bag of beans, a three-gallon jar of mustard, seven quarts of orange and lemon extract, and thirty pounds of baking powder. They smashed or removed bulbs and oven doors, and in the cooler blended stewed apricots and prunes with steamed rice.

...

At Germfask, Yamada fell in with a militant group of resisters including the soon-to-become-notorious Corbett Bishop. After taking part in a work slowdown, Yamada (with others) walked away from camp, earning himself a prison sentence of three and a half years. At Ashland, Kentucky, where he was sent off to do his time, he was reunited with Rustin."

- Daniel Akst, War By Other Means: How the Pacifists of World War 2 Changed American for Good. New York: Melville House, 2022. p. 176-179.

[rentandrelaxus]

Xplorie's December Activity Round Up

Xplorie’s December Activity Round Up

Cannon Beach Area If you are searching for the best day tour from Portland, Oregon, look no further. The Mt. Hood Loop tour offers a fun and stress-free way to see the top sites near Portland, including the nationally recognized Multnomah Falls, the second highest year-round waterfall in the United States, and the Columbia River Gorge, Hood River Valley, and Timberline Lodge up at Mt.…

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5SOS: Come on tour for a day with your favorite band 💞

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Cycling Tour of Mt. St. Helens, Mt. Rainier, and Mt. Hood

Cycling Tour of Mt. St. Helens, Mt. Rainier, and Mt. Hood

A new 5-day road biking tour being offered by Escape Adventures features some of the most breathtaking and spectacular views available in the western United States. Known as the “Volcanoes and Waterfalls” tour, guests will be tested with high altitudes and climbs, but rewarded with unmatched views that cannot be found anywhere else on earth. An incredibly diverse succession of terrain, ranging…