Heās calling it ā1,000 times worth the trip.ā
Colin Wilson, a chiropractor from Courtenay, was among hundreds of thousands of people to experience a rare complete solar eclipse in the path of totality from Mount Jefferson Wilderness, Ore.
āItās a complete sensory experience,ā he said Monday morning. āIt gets cooler, your eyes are wondering why itās daylight but āfiltered.ā Everything that has chromatic aberration sort of look to it.
āThen the shadow comes and your hair stands up. It gets cooler and then the stars show up.ā
Wilson drove to the central Cascade Range south of Portland Friday as part of his summer holidays.
āPeople were hooting and hollering. We had probably 40 people within earshot of us.ā
