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A Hot Shower

            My brother and extended family were in town for Christmas this year, so what do you do with a huge group representing generations of family?  Steel wool spinning in an abandoned military battery of course!  Battery Russel to be exact, in Fort Stevens, Oregon.  My brother has two teenage kids and I knew they would get a kick out of spinning wool.  My kinds have done it before.  

Knowing that the bounce is the best part of the spark, I wanted to go into a tunnel of some kind, the open beach is too cold.  So we went to a battery.  We have these all over Oregon.  If you don't know what they are, they are hidden bunkers, hidden to ships.  They hide huge cannons that pop up to take out bad-guy ships off the shore.  They never saw any real military action, and were abandoned.  Some are in State Parks now, others on private land.  They all have a labyrinth of concrete hallways and rooms thought the compounds, making them perfect for bouncing sparks.  The added bonus is that there is nothing to catch fire. 

Now, having that said, I am not sure if this kind of activity is allowed in a State Park Battery.  So what do you do when you have your whole family with you and you are doing something legally questionable?  You post the oldest as lookout, and have them text you if the rangers come around.  Duh.  So I left my Mother in the car, phone at the ready.  The other older siblings are now part of the early-warning team and they are alerting my brother and I who are teaching the teenage kids how to responsibly light steel wool on fire and emit showers of dangerous sparks all over each other.  Merry Christmas!

Taken in: United States / Oregon / Clatsop (show map)

Taken on: December 26, 2018

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