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        Macleay, a Scotsman, gave the land to the city in 1897 in commemoration of the 60th anniversary of Queen Victorias reign, but that was not the only reason!<br/>Tags: forest, hiking, rain, huge, kids, history, trails, thumbs up, forest park, dripping moss, wet, slugs, bring caterina, woods, relax, giant, calm, nw, awesome, wild, non-native plant species battles, dense, aroma, mystical<br /><br /><a href="http://platial.com/post/2621">Map this on Platial</a><br /> 
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        Tags: skinhead, shuffleboard, racist, kitsch, hip, fights, dive, dark, cheap, beer, bathroom.graffiti, bar, sleazy, violent<br /><br /><a href="http://platial.com/post/640">Map this on Platial</a><br /> 
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        For all the nuts, bolts, pipes and lightbulbs you will ever need.<br/>Tags: hardware, nw, ladders, tools, tile, friendly, cute guys, plumbing, electrical, fixtures, surfacing, showers, bathtubs, near yoga, lighting, local, history, 1960, respect, integrity, helpful, special bulbs, near montgomery park, sinks, faucets<br /><br /><a href="http://platial.com/post/2583">Map this on Platial</a><br /> 
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        Awesome hot dog cart downtown.  The King Dog and the Weenie Queen are one of the nicest couples in town!<br/>Tags: lunch, hot dogs, food<br /><br /><a href="http://platial.com/post/32708">Map this on Platial</a><br /> 
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        Somewhat old stone house ruins.  It is unclear exactly what it had been, but rumors of rituals have always surrounded this magnificently mossy specimen.  <br/>Tags: witch, stone, rumor, ruins, park, moss, magic, house, hiking, haunted, ghost, forest, ferns, castle, ghost.wars, creek, scary, fun, kids, dogs, rumors, ghost wars, mossy, forest park, easy hike, flat hike, summer raspberries<br /><br /><a href="http://platial.com/post/573">Map this on Platial</a><br /> 
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        An encouraging sign of Portland's attitude, and a timely show of bike support from the auto cultured world.
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        OK, this is serious!  Walking around along Sumner St last night, around 11 or 12, listening to a podcast. I hear such a loud screaming sound that I take off my headphones and am standing directly in front of the tree pictured here. Some kind of feral brutality was going down.  One growling, snorting, snarling, deep, nightmarishly terrifying beast could be heard high up in the tree shaking around a terrified, squealing, shrieking, screaming animal for a duration of no less than 2 minutes.  Neighborhood dogs started barking at the noise, but no humans came to investigate. Then what had previously only been auditory exposure, changed. I saw the branches at the very top of this tree bend out, and the treetop began to shake violently. At first I thought the aggressor must be a raccoon, but the size of the disruption was more along the lines of what you'd expect from something almost human in scale. It was huge, it was wild.  

Then the screaming stopped.

Then I heard the monster descending very rapidly within the branches of this very tall tree, and started to consider what would happen if a bloody predator, of any size, came barging over the fence and towards me.

The dogs were still barking. I noticed there were a lot of dogs, behind a lot of tall fences.  In fact every house on the block was actively protecting itself from the threat of invasion.  Could this monster be a known phenomena? Known yet suppressed? After all, not a single person came to see what the noise was, what all the noise was about.  Had they learned their lesson the hard way? Should this beast be ignored?  Should I not have stopped? <br/>Tags: tree, death, scary, sound, blood, wild animals, raccoon, sumner, beast, feral death, city animals, chupacabra, urban predators, carnage<br /><br /><a href="http://platial.com/post/3773295">Map this on Platial</a><br /> 
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