I’ve always wanted to hike the Oregon Coast Trail, the OCT. It is a trail made possible by state legislation preserving the coastal landscape of Oregon for public use. This seems like a common sense sort of declaration - however, coming from California, where most if not all coast lines and including any preferable shorelines (Lake Tahoe, Donner Lake, etc.) are held by private owners who are most often, incredibly wealthy and mark their No Trespassing warnings frequently and often with visible and obvious physical barriers - dinghies, fences, cameras, gates and security guards.

Coming from a place like that and given my love of self preambulation from one place to another, the OCT makes a lot of sense as a bucket-list goal. I have been part of a small group of others who enjoy putting a bunch of heavy stuff on their backs and going from one place to another while complaining, joking and having an incredibly good time while being really uncomfortable. It was with this crew that we planned a short - just one section (and not even a whole one) trip to hike the first section (ish) of the OCT.

We had the benefit of a home base each night and with two cars to shuttle, it was looking to be not just a luxurious trip with only what we needed for the day on our backs, but the weather was going to be glorious as well. I decided to take my twin lens reflex camera, my Yashica G - for those of you who care- and I brought a long a lot of film I had yet to expose.

One type of film was a color film that had the formula of dyes reacting to different wavelengths of light such that it turned out ‘purple’ as a dominant color. The intensity and variations controllable by the ISO one chose to shoot at.