I have finally gotten some photos uploaded. It is so slow so this has been a few days in the making. Some of them are grainy because of the high contrast of the scene.
At the parking lot at Timberline. Linda, Karis and Toni admiring one of the Three Sisters on the horizon. I had taken panorama photos and stitched them together so it was a complete view from where we were. The proportions were too odd - too long and too short - I guess, since it wouldn't load up on blogger. This photo is a chunk of it and seems to be at least four different shots.
The View we were subjected to throughout lunch. Snowboarders kept coming down where Linda and Karis could watch them from their side of the table..
Below, the part of Timberline Lodge that faces south. We ate behind the center part of the building, facing north. The middle chimney in the photo is for the central fireplace/fireplaces - four hearths. It was to our backs and no fire that day. It wasn't necessary, except for atmosphere.
Coming away from the north side of Mt Hood, I pulled over to take a look. The best view was in my rear view mirror.
Looking north towards Washington, Mt Adams popped into view. Linda took pictures while I drove.
Karis and Toni in front of Bonneville Dam. What a beautiful day - and noisy with all of that water spilling through.
The view through the counting window in the fish ladder. The marks on the glass are different measurements. The fish are filtered through a narrow channel in the fish ladder where they can be counted. These are Shad. Some fellas at the old locks in Cascade Locks were catching and saving them in their freezer to use as bait when setting crab pots at the coast.
43,375 of these fish were counted the day we were there. 820 Chinook Salmon, 89 hatchery Steelhead (sea-going trout), 13 Wild Steelhead, 5 Sockeye Salmon and 15 Lamprey Eels were also listed that day (May 29, 2007) as having passed by this window. https://www.nwp.usace.army.mil/op/b/fishcam.asp is a link to the camera there.
Lupin. Beautiful, peppery lupin.
At the Bonneville fish hatchery, the prime star is a Herman the sturgeon. Herman is a white sturgeon. When Herman was first introduced to his new home in 1998, he was 9’ in length, 400 lbs. and 60 years old. The first photo is this fella's face, the second, his mid-section. there was only so much you could get into view in each shot. They have built a larger pool for the big guys which has a little house containing an underwater viewing area.
Multnomah Falls
Karis was already up close taking photos while Toni, Linda and I took in the view. We walked up a ways above the bridge.
Crown Point
The gorge wind's version of Titanic's, "I'm the king (queen) of the world......"
The winds whip around this spot so fiercely that you can be knocked off balance quite easily. They were leaning into the wind, hair whipping around... it was exhilarating!
View from Crown Point looking east, up the Columbia River Gorge.
The view from Women's Forum State Park. This is a wonderful view of Crown Point (that white dot on top of the cliff) and the Columbia River Gorge.
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