Grant's Getaways: 101 Oregon Adventures

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Emmy Award–winning journalist and fifth-generation Oregon native Grant McOmie provides travelers with an in-depth guide to 101 of the best Oregon destinations featured in his popular television series Grant’s Getaways, produced by KGW-TV and Travel Oregon. Come along with Grant McOmie as he explores family-friendly destinations and day trips across the width and breadth of Oregon. From kayaking in Netarts Bay, riding a jet boat on the Rogue River, and fishing for Deschutes River steelhead to exploring Lava River ...

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Overview

Emmy Award–winning journalist and fifth-generation Oregon native Grant McOmie provides travelers with an in-depth guide to 101 of the best Oregon destinations featured in his popular television series Grant’s Getaways, produced by KGW-TV and Travel Oregon. Come along with Grant McOmie as he explores family-friendly destinations and day trips across the width and breadth of Oregon. From kayaking in Netarts Bay, riding a jet boat on the Rogue River, and fishing for Deschutes River steelhead to exploring Lava River Cave in the Newberry Volcanic National Monument, digging for fossils in the John Day Basin, and riding mountain bikes at Black Rock, Grant’s Getaways: 101 Oregon Adventures has an outdoor adventure for everyone. The book is organized by the month in which the television segment was filmed, and features 75 photographs from Grant’s outdoor adventures. Also included are travel tips such as “What to Know if You Go” and “Best Time of the Year” as well as access information.

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Editorial Reviews

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“No one knows how to get more out of our amazing state than Grant McOmie. He’s been showing us how to enjoy the best stuff along the back roads and beyond for a long time. I suspect he might actually be trying to get away from the question everyone asks him—‘How do I get your job?’—but I’m thankful Grant’s made it so easy for all of us to . . . get away.”
—Paul Linnman, KEX 1190 radio personality, and author of The Exploding Whale and Oregon Golf
 
 “I've been a fan of Grant McOmie since his cub reporter days in Seattle. He is the voice of the great Pacific Northwest outdoors. Capturing not only the story of the destination, but sharing the legends, yarns, and accounts of the personalities that make Oregon this unique place we call home. Great read, makes me want to get outdoors even more!”     
—John Williams, creator/host of Wheelchair Destinations
 
 “Grant has long been a favorite of mine and now he’s sharing the how, what, where, and when of his insightful outdoor adventures. Whether tree climbing, cooking up a crawfish boil, digging clams and fossils, kayaking, snowshoeing, or soaring skyward, Grant offers 101 concise vignettes that intrigue and encourage us to lace up our boots and get out there. As Grant so aptly puts, ‘Why live here if you don’t go searching for those singular moments which set Oregon apart.’ Amen.”
—MJ Cody, co-editor of Wild in the City
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Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780882409566
  • Publisher: Pruett Publishing Company
  • Publication date: 5/22/2013
  • Pages: 312
  • Sales rank: 326849
  • Product dimensions: 5.27 (w) x 9.60 (h) x 0.68 (d)

Meet the Author

Grant McOmie is a Pacific Northwest journalist, author, and teacher who writes and produces stories and special programs about the people, places, outdoor activities, and environmental issues of the Pacific Northwest. A fifth-generation Oregon native, Grant is a graduate of Pacific University in Forest Grove, Oregon, and he continued graduate studies in Journalism, English and Speech Communications at the University of Washington and the University of Portland (Master of Arts).
      Grant began his broadcast career at Portland’s KGW-TV in 1981, and then worked at other stations in Seattle and Portland. He returned to KGW in 2008. He currently stars in the ongoing series Grant’s Getaways for KGW-TV and Travel Oregon. While he has had a varied career reporting and producing topical and timely environmental news stories, features and documentary programs, it’s been the exploration of the Pacific Northwest back roads and byways that he has enjoyed the most. Sharing those journeys of discovery with readers and viewers has provided the greatest personal rewards and the dominant themes in his work.
      Grant has received significant awards for his work, including numerous Emmy Awards from the National Academy of Television Arts, most recently a 2011-12 Emmy for Feature Reporting. He shares the distinct honor of the Edward R. Murrow Award for News Coverage from the Radio-Television News Directors Association, as well as many Oregon AP and OAB News Awards over the past three decades.

 

 

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Grant's Getaways

101 Oregon Adventures
By Grant McOmie

Westwinds Press

Copyright © 2013 Grant McOmie
All right reserved.

ISBN: 9780882408613

Longtime chef and local restaurateur and all around Oregon adventurer, Leather Storrs, said it’s really pretty simple: if you want to harvest wild mushrooms, learn their habitats. In the Tillamook State Forest – where the sun and the shadows dance through the towering Doug fir trees, Storrs’ well-trained eyes were fixed down close to the ground as he searched for a culinary reward.

“Ohhh, there we are – chanty number one – it’s always good to get off the dime early,” exclaimed Storrs with a hearty laugh.

Chanterelles have a golden-orange hue and their chalice shape make them hard to spot – but their allure is a woodsy flavor that’s hard to resist. Since 1999, the gorgeous fungi have been Oregon’s official State Mushroom.

 “As soon as you see the first one,” noted Storrs. “There is this chanterella-vision that allows you to see that unique sort of peachy-orange color, but with the weather change and the alder leaves turning yellow on the ground it’s getting trickier.”

Chanterelles are not the only mushrooms in the forest. Storrs, an experienced mushroom hunter said that there are dozens of other mushrooms that grow here and most are none too friendly to people and many are downright dangerous.

 “When you’re doing it without knowledge and confirmation, there’s no reason to take any chances. I learned in culinary school an old saying: ‘There are old mycologists and there are bold mycologists, but there are no old, bold mycologists.’

Leather Storrs may not be an old, bold mycologist, but he is one of Portland’s finest chefs.



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Table of Contents

GRANT’S GETAWAYS: 101 Oregon Adventures Contents listed by best month to visit:

JANUARY

1-Eco Pub/Hopworks Brew Pub

2-Adventures Without Limits

3-Heritage Trees

4-Dinosaurs with Fins @Bonneville Hatchery

5-Fort Yamhill SP

6-McKenzie River Valley- Belknap Hot Springs

7-Mush Puppies/Jerry Scdoris

8-Elkhorn Wildlife Area Elk Tour

 

FEBRUARY

9-Rice Rocks Gem Museum

10-Romance of Waterfalls

11-Erratic Rocks SP

12-Snow Shoes to Trillium Lake

13-OHV Tillamook State Forest

14-Cape Perpetua Scenic Area

15-Klamath Refuge/Eagle Celebration

16-Hot Lake Springs Resort

 

 MARCH

17-Magness Farm and World Forestry Center

18-Aquatic Invasive Species/Marine Patrol

19-Kayak Tillamook/Netarts

20-Drift Creek Trail and Niagara Falls

21-White River Wildlife Area

22-Covered Bridges of Linn County

23-Cottage Grove Scenic Bikeway

24-Wildlife Safari

25-Friend to the Critters/Wildlife Images

 

APRIL

26-Soar like an Eagle

27-Tree-to-Tree Adventure

28-Rowena/CG Scenic Hwy

29-Holleywood Ranch Petrified Wood

30-Mt Hood Sc Drive/Parkdale & Lost Lake

31-Razor Clams/Horseneck Clams

32-Cape Lookout Hike – Whale Watch

33-Kam Wah Chung Museum

34-Oasis in the Desert-Malheur Wildlife Refuge Frenchglen/Round Barn/Diamond Craters

 

MAY

35-Saddle Mtn, Spruce Run, Nehalem Falls

36-Ki-A-Kuts Falls

37-Nestucca River Scenic Byway

38-Mary’s Peak

39-Valley of the Giants

40-Upper Willamette: Black Canyon Campground, Willamette Hatchery Museum, Salt Springs Falls, Odell Lake

41-Green Peter Reservoir

42-Klamath Canoe Trail

43-Klamath Trout Fishing

 

JUNE

44-Up, Up and Away/Newberg Hot Air Balloons

45-ODFW-Heritage Foundation: First Hand Oregon

46-ODFW Trout Airlift

47-Soft Sides of an Iron Giant/Iron Mtn Hike

48-Newberry Crater/Paulina Lake

49-A River Runs Through It/Metolius

50-La Pine State Park, Lava River Cave, Lava Butte, Lava Cast Forest

51-Diamond Lake is Fishy Again!

52-Three for One/Sunset, Shore Acres, C Arago

(also Xmas Lighting at Shore Acres)

 

JULY

53-Youth Outdoor/Becoming Outdoors Woman

54-Black Rock Mtn Bike Trails

55-Nestucca Bay Wildlife Refuge/Whalen Is SP

56-Santiam Horseback Trail

57-Oakridge Mountain Bikes

58-High Cascade Canoe/Sparks Lake

59- Palisades SP/Cove Houseboats

60-Oregon Caves National Monument and Lodge*

61-Rogue River Jet Boat

 

AUGUST

62-Disc Golf @Stub Stewart SP

63-Trask River Crawfish

64-Huckleberry Hounds

65-Climbing Old Growth Trees

66-Siltcoos River Canoe Trail

67-J. Day Fossil Beds/Digging Fossils/Wheeler HS

68-Crater Lake Boat Tour

69-Swiss Alps of the West- Wallowa Lake SP

 

SEPTEMBER

70-Taking Aim at Archery

71-Bald Peak State Park and Wheatland Ferry

72-Tillamook Bay Chinook Fishing

73-Trail of 10 Falls/Silver Falls

74-All Hands on Deck/Newport

75-Wolf Creek Inn and Golden SP

76-South Slough National Estuarine Reserve

77-Deschutes River Steelhead

 

 

OCTOBER

78-Afoot and Afloat Fall Colors/Tualatin Refuge

79-Historic Cemeteries

80-Chanterelle Mushroom Hunt

81-Walk on the Wildside/Wildwood Rec Area

82-ODFW Crabbing Class (Oct)

83-Bonney Butte Raptors

84-The Oregon Birding Trail/Willamette Valley

85-Sumpter Dredge

 

NOVEMBER

86-Fernhill and Jackson Bottom Wetlands

87-Sandy River Gorge Preserve

88-Wheelchair Destinations

89-Sauvie Island Sandhills

90-Down by the Ol’Mill Stream/Thompson’s Mills SP

91-All Oregon Boat

92-Secrets in the Sand/Lincoln City

93-Ladd Marsh Wildlife Area

 

DECEMBER

94-Wild in the City/Portland Intertwine

95-Smith Bybee Lakes

96-Columbia River Highway 30

97-Twilight Eagle Sanctuary

98-Snow Play on the Mtn

99-Jewell Elk

100-Deep Tracks/Snow Shoe Deschutes Forest

101-High Desert Museum

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