HammeringOutsideTheBox

About HammeringOutsideTheBox

Camas sits close enough to the Columbia River Gorge that a cold snap can drop snow here while Portland, a short drive south, stays wet and green, and when it does, HammeringOutsideTheBox is out clearing the driveways and walkways around the old mill town's brick storefronts and hillside neighborhoods. The mill still marks the hours downtown, and the streets that climb away from it toward Prune Hill get steep and slick fast once the temperature drops. This crew shovels front walks and porch steps, plows driveways on those graded hillside streets, and salts the paths that ice over first in the long afternoon shadow below the ridge. Camas doesn't keep its snow long, so the work is about getting ahead of a short window before it turns to slush and refreezes overnight. HammeringOutsideTheBox covers Camas and its hillside streets above the Columbia.