Today we head east into the
high desert. We are fifteen miles east
of Ashland moving towards Klamath Falls when our friend Gary texted me to see
if we are still in Ashland because he and Edmund arrive in Ashland later that
afternoon. Tom and I already discussed
staying in Ashland another day so we called Gary to see what they had planned,
which was to see The Wiz that evening. That was all we needed to convince us that
another day in Ashland is what we should do. With no hotel reservations
constraining us I hopped online and booked tickets to the play with my trusty
iPhone. (How did we ever live without
those darn things?)
Our change of plans for the
day now directed us towards a day hike then a return to Ashland. We were within a mile of a trailhead along
the Pacific Crest Trail in the Cascade-Siskiyou National Monument (declared by Bill Clinton in 2000) so we
diverted to the Green Springs Mountain Loop Trail and were rewarded with a pleasant walk in the woods and a gorgeous
view of the hills of the intersection of the Cascade and Siskiyou mountain ranges.
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Trailhead |
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Trespasser? |
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We had to work for the views on this hike |
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The high view with Ashland in the distance |
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The rewarding view |
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More spoils |
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Trail to utopia |
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Cascade-Siskiyou forest |
That evening we connected with
Gary and Edmund for a nice dinner a Greenleaf restaurant before catching the
show at the brilliant open air venue The Allen Elizabethan Theatre (temperature
was perfect!). The original The Wiz is a
1970s blacksploitation film adaptation of The Wizard of Oz. As such, in today's climate of culture some
of the play’s comedic anecdotes were dated
and cringe worthy, but overall the play was enjoyable colorful eye candy and
high energy performances. When plays are
performed in this theatre the costumes feature Elizabethan accents and The Wiz
held court by creatively blending costumes from The Wiz and the time of
Shakespeare.
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The Allen Elizabethan Theatre showing The Wiz |
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