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Why March Feels Longer in Bend Than It Does in Texas
When people think about the difference between Bend, Oregon and Austin, Texas, they usually think about winter.
They picture snow in the Cascades, ski lifts turning above Mount Bachelor, and cold mornings in January. What surprised me most after moving north, though, was not winter.
It was spring.
More specifically, it was the light.
Because Bend sits much farther north than Austin, the seasons move a little differently here. As winter loosens its grip and spring approaches, the days begin stretching noticeably faster than they do in Texas.
In the month of March alone, Bend gains roughly ninety minutes of additional daylight. Austin gains closer to fifty.
Forty extra minutes of daylight may not sound like much on paper. But when it arrives gradually over a few weeks, you feel it everywhere.
The sun lingers longer over the Cascades in the afternoon. Trails stay bright well into the evening. Skiers squeeze in one last run before...
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The Woman Who Wrote Her Way West: An Oregon Trail Story Behind Bend Oregon's History
Most people know the Oregon Trail as a line in a history book or a pixelated game from childhood. Wagons crawl across the plains. Rivers must be forded. Someone inevitably dies of dysentery.
What often gets lost is the human part of the story. Who actually walked those miles? Who watched the landscape change day by day? And perhaps most importantly, who took the time to write any of it down.
In 1836, long before Bend existed as a town and before Oregon was even a state, Narcissa Whitman made the long journey west across the Rocky Mountains. Along the way, she kept a written account of the trip through letters and journals. Her words are widely considered the first surviving journal written b...
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