VOLCANO WALK
July 16 & 17, 2005
(thanks to Judy DeBenedetti for organizing this walk)
5K of this walk was in
Mt. Tabor Park on
paved and natural surfaces. We walked on top of the only extinct volcanic
cinder cone in the center of a US city. We encountered natural areas,
reservoirs and magnificent views of
Mount Tabor was named by Plympton Kelly (Kelly Butte settler) for another Mt. Tabor, which sits six miles east of Nazareth in Israel. The volcanic features of Mt. Tabor became known in 1912, three years after becoming a public park in 1909. The volcanic cinders discovered in the park were later utilized in surfacing the park’s roads. Mt. Tabor now contains a permanent exhibit of the volcanic cone from which the cinders were obtained.
At the top of Mount Tabor is the bronze statue of Harvey W, Scott, editor of The Oregonian newspaper from 1865 to 1872 and 1877 to 1910. (He was the first graduate of Pacific University.)
His wife left $20,000 to the
city of
