HASSO HERING

A perspective from Oregon’s mid-Willamette Valley

No place to be in a storm

Written February 11th, 2015 by Hasso Hering

You might want to bring a chainsaw when riding on Albany’s Cox Creek path in winter. Just kidding. It’s not that often that the path is blocked by a fallen tree.


Railroad safety on Cox Creek Path

Written January 18th, 2015 by Hasso Hering

This is something you don’t see all that often: Flaggers keeping an eye on traffic where Albany’s Cox Creek Path ducks under the Union Pacific mainline.


Something’s new along Cox Creek

Written December 18th, 2014 by Hasso Hering

A new feature has appeared on the Cox Creek Path, one of Albany’s bike and walking trails, and an interesting item it is.


Narrow passage on Cox Creek path

Written December 15th, 2014 by Hasso Hering

The occasional obstacle makes riding Albany’s bike and walking paths more interesting, wouldn’t you say?


Trouble on the Cox Creek path…

Written February 24th, 2014 by Hasso Hering

It’s been at least a week since a vandal defaced the railroad underpass on Albany’s Cox Creek path. (Let me hasten to note right here that I realize that by following linguistic convention, I am unjustly defaming the Vandals. That northern tribe may have been among those who sacked Rome, but Rome had it coming. And afterward, if […]


Watching a log train being built

Written November 22nd, 2013 by Hasso Hering

I was riding my bike along Albany’s Cox Creek path on Thursday (Nov. 21) — a sunny, cold and windy day — when a train carrying logs was being assembled at the nearby Millersburg yard of the Portland & Western Railroad. The yard figures in the long-standing effort to do more train building there and […]


 
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