<VV> No Corvair -- Anyone in Arizona?

Tue Oct 24 19:24:18 EDT 2006

"Eastern Oregon is an unrelenting and uninteresting desert"

This is absolute garbage as our local club (Columbia Basin Corvairs) has on 
several occasions taken a days tour to Lehman Hot Springs in northeastern 
Oregon.  The scenery going down Highway 395 is beautiful and then after 
turning east it goes into forests and streams and is well worth the tour. 
At Lehman, we swam in the hot pool with snow falling which is a really 
unique experience.  The pool, by the way, is surrounded by tall pine trees 
as is the entire area.  You could look in vain for any desert.  When we 
continue south on 395 to California, the trip has always been scenic and 
interesting with nary a spot of desert.  Some plains or rolling hills, but 
no desert.  And yes, I've driven it in a Corvair on the way to the Fan Belt 
Toss, several times.
RonH

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Eric S. Eberhard" <flash at vicsmba.com>
To: <virtualvairs at corvair.org>
Sent: Tuesday, October 24, 2006 2:33 PM
Subject: Re: <VV> No Corvair -- Anyone in Arizona?

> It is funny how stereotypes stick to a place.  Arizona is a MOUNTAIN 
> state, not a DESERT state.  Arizona has more pine trees than Oregon does. 
> Arizona has less desert than Oregon does.  But everyone pictures AZ 
> because they usually see Phoenix.  They picture Oregon because they see 
> the coast/Portland.  Almost nobody knows the mountains of AZ.
>
> Flagstaff is at 7,000+ feet.  It rarely exceeds 80 degrees ever.  It can 
> get over 10 feet of snow there.  And it certainly gets well below freezing 
> in the winter.
>
>  Where I am (Camp Verde which is near Sedona) is a compromise between 
> Phoenix and Flagstaff, not as hot and not as cold.  Some of the best 
> weather in the world, and quick access to the worlds largest Ponderosa 
> forest, lakes (water ski, jet ski, house boats, etc), skiing (yes, we have 
> ski slopes), fishing, hunting (elk, deer, turkey, antelope, bear, mtn. 
> lion, etc).  BTW -- AZ has more boat registrations than Oregon as well. 
> And the beach is only a few hours away from Phoenix (Rocky Point in 
> Mexico).
>
> Eastern Oregon is an unrelenting and uninteresting desert ... with a nice 
> coastline.
>
> Ah well, I should shut up and let everyone think we are nothing but 
> scalding desert and rattlesnakes and rednecks, else you would all want to 
> move here :-)
>
> Eric
>
> At 01:39 PM 10/24/2006, you wrote:
>>
>>In a message dated 10/24/2006 1:18:39 P.M. Pacific Daylight Time,
>>donald.l.eyermann at boeing.com writes:
>>
>>Nah,  just erratic, not daily. And spotty, not throughout the entire
>>valley. It  rare, only a few timnes a year where the whole valley has
>>rain. And usually  we're pretty thankful when it happens.
>>
>>Here it's like, you get up, walk  outside in the morning, squit and say,
>>"DANG, another nice day, wish we  could get some weather for a few hours
>>to break the monotony."
>>
>>or,  "WOW ! Look at those clouds, boy we're finally gonna get some rain !
>>I can  see it's already raining over in __(some other local community)_
>>!"....uh  oh...."They're just blowing over us...DANG....just a tease."
>>
>>
>>
>>Now, that sounds like the summer rain coming in from Mexico--cumulus
>>drifting in, then coalescing to make cumulonimbus (thunderheads)--the end 
>>of
>>comfortable 100+ temperature with practically no humidity and the 
>>beginning of  nasty
>>summer heat like say Detroit, f'rinstance.
>>Having experienced both Detroit and Phoenix (not to mention Los  Angeles).
>>Scotty
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