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A makeshift tent city thrived for weeks under the southeast end of the Hawthorne Bridge and spilled out along a bluff above the Willamette River, sharing a million-dollar panorama of downtown Portland with photographers who often lined up nearby to take in one of the city's best views.

Over the past few days, the site's apparently homeless denizens have mostly pulled up stakes, leaving behind piles of clothes, bike parts, needles and other debris.

"This is bad, this is real bad," Patrick Shaw said as he shoveled up trash and dumped it into bags. Shaw is an employee of Ruffin Construction, hired by the Portland Development Commission and called on occasionally to clean up homeless encampments. He says the garbage and debris left at this camp site is one of the worst he's seen.

Shaw loaded bike frames and parts, tent stakes, tarps, clothing and other items into the back of a waiting pickup, saying all the items were going straight to the dump.

Several homeless campers along the waterfront said Tuesday police told them that they needed to move along. They slowly broke down their campsites.

It's a seasonal occurrence, one of them said: As the weather gets nice, the city cracks down.

"It's whack-a-mole season," said one camper who identified himself only as Doc. It's part of life on the street, and you just have to keep moving, he said.

--Kristyna Wentz-Graff

@kwgphoto