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2011 Sandy River Flooding on Lolo Pass Road:

We drove around to witness the Sandy River flooding in Oregon and arrived at Lolo Pass just as the road was about to wash out. It was amazing to see such natural destruction. We watched the Sandy River take down countless 50 foot tall trees, ripping them off its banks and swallowing them up. Amazing.

Shot and Edited by Tyler Malay and Alexandra Erickson.
Shot with a canon 60d and canon 7d.
Music by Air "La Femme D'argent".

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alexandra erickson
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Shaun Daley 1 year ago

beautiful in a terrifying way. 1:11 shows how powerful the earth shaking force is.
DNA FC 1 year ago

wow. what a beautiful video. thank you for sharing =)
Jon Montana 1 year ago

something about Air's music and nature always seem to go together even when its disastrous. Amazing video!
alexandra erickson 1 year ago

Thanks! Glad you guys like the video.
Kim Upham 1 year ago

Lovely cinematography and editing. Really shows the power of mother nature and what those up on the mountain are contending with. The Red Cross just opened a shelter in Welches. I hope to be volunteering there later in the week.
m e fitz 1 year ago

Well done. That is my neighborhood.
ken price 1 year ago

Great footage. We have a house on the upper Sandy off East Barlow road and this flood was wild... I've also used Air's "La Femme D'argent" in some of my videos. Perfect music for the outdoors!
Jeremy Nylund 1 year ago

who's got their inner tubes!
Gary Randall 1 year ago

Nice work. I live on Barlow Trail. I was filming video hand held with my D90 and left just before the road washed out. Thanks for documenting it.

Great filming and editing.
marty sheppard 1 year ago

Very nice! Thanks for sharing.
Dustin Brandon 1 year ago

nicely done! wow it looks like rivers of chocolate like willy wonka or something... i love air btw!
nwLHC 1 year ago

Hard to watch, hard to look away. You captured the power of the river and the sadness of nature's destruction. Thank you for documenting. Beautifully done!
Brett Carlson 1 year ago

My aunt lives just up stream from the washout, at the 3 mile marker. Luckily she has a generator and decent amount of propane to keep things going.
Gregory Jamiel 1 year ago

This is a beautiful video, so sad to see the river washing things away. Have to head up there to see it.
caveman 1 year ago

very well done
Paul Shanahan 1 year ago

love it, I love the power of the Sandy River
Zane Jacobson 1 year ago

Strange to see the Sandy transformed into a roiling jungle dragon like that. Incredible production, thanks for this.
LiliWhite 1 year ago

Great work--sad & scary--what state is this in?
alexandra erickson 1 year ago

Its in Oregon, near Mt Hood
LiliWhite 1 year ago

Its a beautiful piece, so glad I saw it
Tony Trinh 1 year ago

I'm originally from Portland, haven't been to Hood in awhile. Well produced video, good editing and footage. Nice contrast of the destructive video and the smooth track by, some savvy, conscious filmmaking. I was wondering, how did you manage that steady tracking shot at the :15 mark?
alexandra erickson 1 year ago

Hey Tony, Thanks! That shot was just hand held and I slowly moved it forward. I had the camera strap around my neck, which helped keep the camera stable. We call it the fake dolly shot.
Tony Trinh 1 year ago

Ah, resourceful filmmaking. Enjoyed it, it's a cool shot. Keep up the good/hard work...
Twenty14Media 1 year ago

Most excellant! Thanks for showing us the way!
Steve Rickles 1 year ago

Very nice camera work. Really liked it. I'm seeing the huge Willammette flows from my office after the wet weekend!
Mindy Schmidt 1 year ago

This is such a beautiful video. I hope you don't mind but had to share it with our Facebook group ( 1100 people ) for Corbett Oregon and embedded it on our web site here:
corbettoregon.com/videos/
Put all your info on there. You did a FABULOUS JOB! Thanks for sharing it!!!!
alexandra erickson 1 year ago

Thanks for posting it! The more the merrier!
Diggable Monkey 1 year ago

Nice work, Alexandra! I really like the slow motion effect on this piece. It's pretty powerful - as is the Air tune. Great choice...
UPHEAVAL 1 year ago

Wonderfully dramatic!
Peter Clotfelter-Quenelle 1 year ago

Great stuff!! I was wondering how you got that nice dolly at the beginning?
alexandra erickson 1 year ago

It was just hand held and I slowly moved it forward. I had the camera strap around my neck, which helped keep the camera stable. We call it the fake dolly shot.
Peter Clotfelter-Quenelle 1 year ago

Awesome, ha I was thinking it was like some kesler crane dolly or something. Very smooth! Thats so cool yall were there when the trees were falling and that fog! Sick!
vividography.com 1 year ago

Incredible capture! Well done.
Rick Walters 1 year ago

Great use of practical light. I wonder how the backyard of that house faired after the flood.
alexandra erickson 1 year ago

Sadly to say, I think that house tipped over. The river got a lot more destructive after we left that night.
Rick Walters 1 year ago

Weak sauce.
(-_-) 1 year ago

What a thrill!
sorry for any loss anybody might have experienced
Mike Stout 1 year ago

Thank you, Alexandra, I didn't have my camera with me when I went through just before the washout. You captured it beautifully. Superb!!
Randy White 1 year ago

That is awesome! Huge fan of the Sandy River- kayaking it at High Water!!!!
Jordan Garey 1 year ago

A time lapse of all the trees falling would have been amazing :D
Sam 1 year ago

This is fantastic.
Kent St. John 1 year ago

I grew up in Sandy. I had no idea the flooding was this bad. Was this located in Zig Zag? Just north off of Hwy. 26, right?
alexandra erickson 1 year ago

Yep, In Zig-Zag , about 200 yards up from the Barlow Trail Road intersection on Lolo Pass
Martin Stone 1 year ago

A lot of people don't realize how placid the Sandy usually is. We used to raft it during Summer in the early 60s. If you had too much beer in the raft, you had to drag it over the sand bars (which is how the river got its name).

Quite different when the rain pours down.
Casey Morrow 1 year ago

That was epic! I'm glad I'm not in Oregon right now, must have been raining like crazy! And boy did that music bring me back...
Guy Manning 1 year ago

This shows the Sandy River doing what man wouldn't let Mother Nature do from 1912 through 2007. Anything going down in this kind of incident shouldn't have been there to begin with, and wouldn't have if the dam had never been built. Great work by the local people on getting the dam taken down.
Deven Stross 1 year ago

Beautifully captured! Mother Earth at her most intense... I've got to start using the video capture ability on my 5d mII. I know it's good, but these images are very inspiring! Thank you for sharing!
bruce t 1 year ago

It is beautiful.
Do you have the rights to use that music? Was it easy to get?
alexandra erickson 11 months ago

Hey Bruce,
No, we don't have the rights to the music. It was a personal project, so we thought we could get away with using it.
Matthew Parrish 1 year ago

My family has a cabin up about a half-mile past this washout. Luckily it's a seasonal cabin and no one was staying there at the time. I know this area like the back of my hand. It's very eerie to see the destruction in such great detail. Thanks for the great video!!
Barbara Baugnon 1 year ago

This is SO beautiful. We took a small break at the Oregon Humane Society to watch it. Please let me know if you ever want to use your talents to help the pets of OHS!
alexandra erickson 11 months ago

Hey Barbara. Thanks! We love dogs!!! We are in Colorado right now, but we will contact you when we get back to Oregon and maybe we can work something out!

Thanks!
Grant Kaye 1 year ago

Excellent work, very well done. Kudos.
Sublime 1 year ago

Awesome video!! Some amazing shots of that flooding!
gary chinook 1 year ago

Thanks for shooting all day to capture & share those few minutes with us.

It's stressful for people, but you're watching the creation of salmon habitat!

p.s. "2011 Sandy River Flooding on Lolo Pass:" Technically, you're not on Lolo Pass where you were shooting, (which you know is several miles north) but rather Lolo Pass Road.
Justin Kent 1 year ago

is this in Brightwood or Welches?
Justin Kent 1 year ago

ahhh, just noticed it's Zig-Zag... incredible, would love to hear the unedited audio of the trees crashing.
Alphabetix 1 year ago

Pretty rockstar, as expected!
alexandra erickson 11 months ago

Thanks! I checked your account...you don't have any videos yet... Get on it!
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alexandra erickson 11 months ago

Hey Hana,
Yes, we shot in 60fps.
Stacy Conaway 1 year ago

Great work, and most any video can benefit from an Air soundtrack! I have a technical question since I just got a Nikon D7000 and I'm getting acquainted with shooting video on a DSLR: Do you shoot in Aperture Priority mode or something else? Are you manually focusing or set to Auto?

I'm hoping to get results similar to yours, would appreciate any DSLR video tips you may have. Thanks!
alexandra erickson 11 months ago

Hey Stacy,
Nice, the DSLRs are fun to use. We shoot everything on Manual (exposure and focus). The cameras are a little hard to get used to, but one you get used to them, the results can be great!
Erik Olsen 1 year ago

well done
cea wall 1 year ago

what a beautiful, horrifying, video.
well done, well crafted.
I feel for the people who lost their houses, trees, cars in this flood.
you convey the relentless rise of the waters, and people's reactions, very well.
Joaquim Bel 1 year ago

Making catastrophic look cool
Patrick Watson 1 year ago

Marvelous piece! Executed extremely well. Think about sending to Army Corp. of Engineers PR. Have to come to the Midwest in the spring and get the Mississippi next.
Pejoka Kararan 1 year ago

Awesome, in all ways. Some friends used to own a house on the river, just downriver from Zig Zag and I always wondered what a flood level might do to the property and now I see!
I too was confused by the Lolo Pass label; it really is Lolo Pass road, some distance from the pass itself.
Beautiful video.
mead video 1 year ago

Nice! Air and Water... :)
Ken Crowne 1 year ago

Surreal imagery you put up here. I would be VERY interested to learn if the impact of the flooding was: 1. aggravated or 2. reduced ---due to the earlier removal of the marmot dam a couple years ago. I know this was a once in 100 rain event, if I recall. How many miles upstream or downstream from Portland proper was this? Does anyone have an answer?
Frank Mahoney 1 year ago

I have to unequivocally agree with the earlier posts. It is very well edited and shot. I can't wait to see more of your work.
jon simpson 1 year ago

Great job!
Jock Doubleday 1 year ago

great footage.

do you do film work?
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alexandra erickson 11 months ago

Hey Jock,
We do freelance video production and editing, if that is what you mean. We do everything with HD digital video cameras and DSLRs, and don't use film.
Thanks!
Jock Doubleday 11 months ago

very impressive. kudos!!
Jeff Simpkins 10 months ago

Very professional work. I've filmed similar stuff and it has never looked close to that good. Excellent job with your editing.
Philip Erskine 9 months ago

Excellent work, really well put together :D 60d ftw
Atoms for Peace 8 months ago

Holy crap. Excellent work. Amazing.
Jose Carlos Rivera Jr. 6 months ago

It's crazy watching this force of nature. Awesome job capturing the moment! What lenses were you using?