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The AshKicker is a demanding 5k adventure run/EVENT,with extreme obstacles through rugged, ash laden terrain. The numerous insane obstacles will cause you to push yourself to your physical and mental limits! Compete individually or call out your friends and gather a team. AshKicker is an amazing way for your team, group, or company to gain team building skills as you help each other make your way to the finish line. Nothing will bond your team together like mud, sweat, and adrenaline!
AshKicker is definitely an event. It has a beer garden that starts at 10am. Live music, raffles and games that continue throughout the day, as well as activities for the kids! And of course, there will be the various Costume Contests so get creative! AshKicker offers a little something for everyone!
Get a front row seat to all the action by camping right on site! It is held at the beautiful Toutle River RV Resort just north of Castle Rock, WA. Their gorgeous grounds, heated pool, cedar saunas, and too many other amenities to list, will give you a place to prepare before the race, as well as a relaxing place to recover after the grueling race. www.ashkicker.org/
From the sign:
"Ash Cave, Ohio's largest stone recess, stretches 700 feet across and rises 90 feet high.
"The rock shelter was created when ground water percolating through the sandstone eroded away the formation's weaker middle layer, undercutting the resistant top layer which forms the ceiling of the 'cave.' The water dissolves away the cement which holds individual grains of sand together. Seasonal freezing and thawing causes expansion and contraction which further loosen the particles and on rare occasion, blocks of stone, until they break off. The falls also contributes to the slow erosive process.
"Archeological excavation of the site in 1877 yielded sticks, arrows, stalks of coarse grasses, flint artifacts, pottery fragments, corn cobs, and the bones of a variety of animals. From subsequent excavations, we know the native habitants once hunted elk and black bear in addition to deer, turkey, squirrel, rabbit, and duck. Once the home of Wyandots, by the 1790's [sic], settlers were moving into the area and began clearing the area for farming. Area streams powered gristmills and saltpeter used in the manufacture of gunpowder was mined by early settlers. By 1990, the last remaining relics of virgin forest existed only in the secret hollows and steepest cliffs where they were safe from the woodsman's axe and farmer's plow.
"The cool, damp gorge also preserved a trove of treasure from Ohio's geologic past, mimicking the climate that existed here thousands of years ago when glaciers imported the eastern hemlock. Canada yew, mountain laurel and other flora and fauna oof more northern climes into the region.
"Recognized for excellent acoustics, including a 'whispering gallery,' Ash Cave became the site for a variety of public meetings and gatherings in the 1800s. As late as 1886, the floor of the shelter was still covered with ashes, causing speculation that early settlers manufactured gunpowder here. Excavated artifacts suggest that the ashes were the accumulated remains of countless campfires used by the Native Americans who inhabited the shelter for untold centuries. Regardless of the actual cause, or causes, this striking geologic feature, Ash Cave, took its name from those ashes, the certain source of which will likely forever remain a mystery."
With the COVID-19 pandemic still causing problems for long-term vacations, Mom and I took a short trip to Hocking Hills State Park to enjoy some time away from home and in nature.
Marked with ashes, Kathy Johnson of York City reads along in the liturgy during the 7 a.m. Ash Wednesday service at the Episcopal Church of St. John the Baptist on Wednesday, March 9, 2011.
The Episcopal Church of St. John the Baptist opened its doors at 7 a.m. for its first Ash Wednesday service on Wednesday, March 9, 2011.
March 9, 2011
Chris Dunn photo
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The Mountain Ash shrubs in Hatcher Pass are heavy with ripening berries by late September. The berries are a favorite of birds like the Bohemian Waxwing and also moose.
Live @Troublefestival 2011
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When my son was about 2 years old, someone scored a hole-in-one on the final hole at Congo Falls Mini Golf right as we were walking by. This triggered the giant gorilla to shoot steam into the air and roar...scaring the heck out of Ash. For years afterwards, we couldn't get him to go near it.
No leaves this year, or ever again. The poor tree is stone dead. There was a lot of work done in the vicinity during the winter around some drains, which may have caused too much root damage for the tree to survive.
But the ash trees are dying all over SE Pennsylvania, and throughout the region. Apparently a beetle is the culprit...and there is no cure at present. Of the many ash trees that have been chopped down in our local state park, a large number have completely hollow trunks...colossal damage.
An arborist told me that within a few years there will be no ash trees left in the US.
How sad this is.
i wonder what the situation is in the UK & the rest of Europe.
The lines of this old song keep running through my head "Oh the Oak & the Ash & the bonny Ivy tree...they flourish at home in the North Country" I hope it's true. I hope they flourish somewhere. The woods & forests will be diminished without them
Ash (Fraxinus americana) 13 inch. The wood is white and quite dense, strong, and straight-grained. The tree's common English name, ash, goes back to the Old English æsc, while the generic name originated in Latin. Both words also meant "spear" in their respective languages. In Norse mythology, the World Tree Yggdrasil is commonly held to be an ash tree, and the first man, Ask, was formed from an ash tree. Elsewhere in Europe, snakes were said to be repelled by ash leaves or a circle drawn by an ash branch. Irish folklore claims that shadows from an ash tree would damage crops. In Cheshire, it was said that ash could be used to cure warts or rickets. It is the timber of choice for production of baseball bats and tool handles. The wood is also favorable for furniture and flooring. It makes a very serviceable longbow if properly worked.
Handmade with locally sourced, naturally dried Ash with a hand-rubbed Linseed oil finish.
This beautifully sculptural form is created with 80 metres of steam bent strips of English Ash, woven, coiled and twisted around one another. Whether the light is on or off, this is a unique and stunning lampshade.
Each one is handmade, signed and dated by myself.
Supplied with a Energy Saving Soft Glow Giant Light Bulb 15 watt (equivalent to 75 watt with a life expectancy of 10 years)
Materials
English Ash
Dimensions
One featured is 60cm Diameter but can be made in various different sizes