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.
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Tags: Albany parks, Calapooia Watershed Council, Cox Creek, Cox Creek path
Tags: Albany parks, Calapooia Watershed Council, Cox Creek, Cox Creek path
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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The day this snake lucked out
There’s an online fact sheet put out by the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife titled “Living With Snakes.” This fat little serpent, however, might benefit from something called “Living With Bicyclists.” Stretched out across the warm concrete of the Cox Creek Path on Friday, it was taking quite a chance. But it lucked out. I saw it in time and veered around it.
Tags: Cox Creek path, gopher snake, Oregon snakes, snakes in Albany