Oregon 2023 Travelog #7
PDX Airport. Tue, 4 Jul 2023, 11amWe're cutting short our holiday weekend trip to the Pacific Northwest. Not by a lot; we're just going home 4 hours early. But we did throw in the towel on further adventuring today ( Read more... )

Pacific Northwest September Travelog #16
Beacon Rock State Park - Mon, 5 Sep 2022, 2pm

I've written two blogs already about hiking at Beacon Rock State Park without mentioning Beacon Rock. Yes, the park does have a namesake! It's a volcanic spire hundreds of feet high that stands near the edge of the Columbia River. We weren't sure we'd have ( Read more... )

Pacific Northwest September Travelog #15
Beacon Rock State Park - Mon, 5 Sep 2022, 1pm

Thankfully Hardy Falls (previous blog) wasn't the only thing at Beacon Rock State Park we were hiking to see. It was frankly underwhelming, especially as the trail isn't routed near enough to it. The trail goes too far above it to really see it. But then there' ( Read more... )

Pacific Northwest September Travelog #14
Stevenson, WA - Mon, 5 Sep 2022, 12pm

My plan for Monday was a simple two-fer before having to head to the airport and home. After hiking Panther Creek Falls (previous blog) we'd stop by Beacon Rock State Park on the way back west, where there are a few nice waterfalls. When we got to the park, though, we ( Read more... )

"How can we drive through the Columbia River Gorge without stopping at Multnomah Falls?" I asked myself two weeks ago when we were driving through the Columbia River Gorge. The not-rhetorical answer would be, "Because we've been there a bunch of times already", which is true. But it was raining so there wasn't a ton else to do that day, and mighty ( Read more... )

I'm still catching up on blogs & photos from a quick weekend trip we took two weeks ago. I finally caught up earlier today with our hike to Paulina Falls on Sunday morning of that trip. That Sunday afternoon we... changed our plans several times ( Read more... )

Southern Washington Weekend Getaway Travelog 7
PDX Airport Gate 16. Sun 23 Mar 2017, 9pm.

Right now I should be sitting on the airplane waiting for takeoff, but instead I'm in the gate area writing up notes on today's adventures. I've got extra time because our flight is delayed 45 minutes. 🙄

After hiking to Panther Creek Falls earlier today we ( Read more... )

Southern Washington Weekend Getaway Travelog 6
Carson, WA. Sun 23 Mar 2017, 2pm.The weekend's crummy weather stuck with us as we ascended once again into the mountains of Washington's Gifford Pinchot National Forest. In fact it got worse. The rain poured more steadily beneath a solid layer of clouds that didn't seem very far above our elevation. ( Read more... )

Southern Washington Weekend Getaway Travelog 5
Carson, WA. Sun 23 Mar 2017, noon.

As of a few days ago the weather forecast for Sunday in the Columbia River Gorge area looked to be partly crummy: bits of rain, bits of sun. But this morning the weather is definitely mostly crummy. It's cool and it's either actively raining or looking like it will ( Read more... )

Southern Washington Weekend Getaway Travelog 4
Hood River, OR. Sun 23 Mar 2017, 10am.We arrived at our hotel in Hood River, OR last night around 7pm. We checked in, cleaned up a little bit, and then headed out in search of food ( Read more... )