{"id":11554,"date":"2012-09-11T18:55:52","date_gmt":"2012-09-11T23:55:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.howderfamily.com\/blog\/?p=11554"},"modified":"2022-05-17T06:19:11","modified_gmt":"2022-05-17T11:19:11","slug":"zig-zag","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.howderfamily.com\/blog\/zig-zag\/","title":{"rendered":"Zig Zag"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

What was that 1980’s song, “One Thing Leads to Another<\/a>?” Right. You know the one. Put that on in the background and use that as our Twelve Mile Circle theme song for the day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I mentioned my frantic search to resolve a Move the Road<\/a> dilemma that the loyal 12MC audience resolved soon thereafter. I attempted all kinds of crazy catch-phrases within various search engines during my initial attempts before I admitted failure and gave up. One was “Zig Zag” and that is where the theme song comes in. I didn’t solve any of my immediate needs however one thing led to another. It provided fodder for a completely different article.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Zigzag, Oregon, USA<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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Lolo Pass Road; Zigzag, Oregon<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

For example, it led me to the Zigzag Ranger District in Zigzag, Oregon, along the Zigzag River (map<\/a>).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I came oh-so-close to Zigzag during my recent trip to Oregon. Had I remained on Route 26 heading towards Portland for another 15 miles instead of turning north towards Hood River<\/a> I would have driven directly through Zigzag. I’ll have to add this to my ever-growing list of lost opportunities and travel frustrations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Authorities named the Ranger Station and District in the Mount Hood National Forest as well as the town of Zigzag for the Zigzag River. With that, one might logically conclude that this must be one incredibly twisting, winding river. However, it’s no more remarkable in that respect than other tributaries nearby. According to one theory<\/a>, it may have had more to do with a trail that led down to and across the river. American pioneers moving through the area in the mid-Nineteenth Century apparently thought of it that way.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Zigzag Roads<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

I discovered only one populated zigzag place in the world, the one in Oregon. On the other hand, I found abundant different roads<\/em> carrying the same distinction. I marked several of them with particularly nice squiggles. I began to appreciate them as much from an aesthetic perspective as from a geographic one.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Blue Ash, Ohio, USA<\/h3>\n\n\n\n