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Bend Premier Real Estate | August 2024 Newsletter
What's in the August 2024 Bend Premier Newsletter?
- Bend Real Estate Sales at a Crossroads
- Avocado Peach Salsa
- August Home Maintenance Checklist
- Hike Cooper Spur on Mt Hood
- Home Inspections for Sellers: How to Prepare
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Bend Oregon Real Estate | July 2024 Trends
Bend Real Estate Sales at a Crossroads
The data has been published and the trends we have seen for many years for Bend home sales have changed. Instead of seeing home sales prices increasing year over year, in July 2024 home sales prices decreased year over year. This change directly reflects on the increased inventory levels the town has experienced in the last few months. The Covid pandemic resulted in tremendous dema...
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Prineville Oregon Real Estate | 1st Half 2024 Market Trends
Prineville Home Sales Mixed
The Prineville Oregon real estate market appears to be showing good sales the first half of 2024. While home prices are up year over year, it is at what is considered a normal healthy market increase. New listings are up, but so are sold and pending homes. Days on market are down and inventory levels are reflecting a strong buyer's market. It appears that people are moving to Prineville and there is demand for active listings in the market.When the first half of 2024 is compared with the first half of 2023, the following changes for Prineville real e...
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Hike Cooper Spur on Mt Hood for a Unique Experience
Cooper Spur is the Highest Maintained Trail on Mt Hood
When smoke from forest fires makes hiking in Central Oregon unsafe, one option can be to go north towards Mt Hood. There are times in which air quality is hazardous in Central Oregon and the air is clear in the north part of the state. This was the situation on July 27th. It is a bit of a drive from Bend to Mt Hood (plan on 2.5 hours), but the air was clear mid morning in the Mt. Hood National Forest.
Cooper Spur is located on the northeast flank of Mt. Hood and has multiple ways to hike to it. The hike from the Cooper Spur Trailhead is one of the shorter ways, but it does gain almost 2700 feet of elevation in roughly 3 miles so it is considered a more challenging hike. To access the this trailhead, hikers drive on close to 9 miles of gravel road which has sections of bad potholes and steep drop offs at the end, but it is passable.
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The initial hike takes trekkers through an old growth mountain hemlock forest complete with wildflowers and streams. As hikers climb, they eventually leave the forest and the path takes them through the tumbled rock of the lower sections of the Eliot Glacier moraine. After hiking above this area, hikers find themselves on the windswept, rocky plane under Cooper Spur. A 70 year old rock shelter is located here, the last one of several that once encircled Mt. Hood and acted as resting places for those who attempted the 41 mile Timberline Trail that still attracts many backpackers today. It is amazing to see this shelter still standing, given all the huge boulders that are nearby, the results of numerous avalanches.
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Past the stone shelter, the trail passes through rocky landscape until the actual push up the lower sections of Cooper Spur begins. Switchbacks take hikers up the spur, but near the top a snow field (this was July 27, 2024) creates a barrier that makes summiting the spur challenging. Those who wish to make it to the top need to boulder along the ridge overlooking Eliot Glacier until they reach the summit.
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Once hikers reach the top of the spur, the views toward the summit are amazing as would be views toward Central Oregon and the Columbia Basin on a clear day. There is a monument stone carved in 1910 from a Japanese hiking party that is interesting to see. If hikers take a quiet break on the summit, they can hear the breaking (calving) of Eliot Glacier as it moves and thaws in the summer heat.
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Hike Tam McArthur Rim to Broken Top For the Views and Experience
Besides the lake, many will take the 5.3 mile round trip hike (permit required) above the lake to Tam McArthur Rim, gaining over 1200 feet in elevation to reach the rim. Typically the views from this spot are clear from Broken Top and the Three Sisters all the way to Mt. Hood. However, in recent years summer forest fires have added haze and smoke often obstructing the views.
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On July 20, 2024, the day started with a slight haze but by the end of the day, the smoke from forest fires settled into the area. However, the hike to Tam McArthur Rim was uneventful with just a handful of people also taking the same trek.
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Past Tam McArthur Rim, the unmaintained trail to Broken Hand and Broken Top had abundant wildflowers for this alpine area as well as heavier snow patches than experienced in past years. The approach to Broken Hand involves scrambling over rocks and climbing several cinder ridges before reaching this rugged, rocky prominence. To pass it this July involved either detouring around the rocky base, hiking over snow fields, or trekking directly over snow on Broken Hand's westside. Either way people needed to be careful to avoid falling and sliding down the snowy hill. The majority of people appeared to be going directly over the snowy side of Broken Hand.
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Past Broken Hand, there is a hill to climb to reach a fabulous view point. From here, the cragged top and colorful flanks of Broken Top are very visible (along with ski tracks from recent, ambitious past visitors who must have either rope climbed to the top of Broken Top and rappelled down or else made their was up the very steep side of the mountain to the top of the snow patch and skied down to the lake) as well as snow and ice covered No Name Lake. Besides Broken Top, the Three Sisters are very big and impressive from this view point and Mt. Bachelor and Tumalo Mountain visible in the hazy distance. The hike back to the trail head goes fairly fast as it is mostly downhill. All in all, the entire hike is under eleven miles and about 2150 feet of elevation gain.
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