We’ve taken a lot of short hikes this summer. This was another of those. It was the Portland Hill Walk that took us to the top of Powell Butte which gave us a very nice view of Portland.
Self-portrait from the top.
Tag: walks
Protest Art in newspaper box
I couldn’t decide if this was protest art or not. What do you think?
Here’s the copyright notice.
Hike: Latourell Falls
That’s some impressive moss you’ve got there, Latourell Falls.
A very clenched-teeth self portrait.
I liked how this view split the falls.
Self-portrait with a view of the Gorge.
Barge on the Gorge.
Mount Adams.
A land/gorge cloud.
The trillium was in bloom.
Self-portrait at the end.
Graffiti I think a lot of us can relate to.
So foggy you can’t even see the end of the container ship
I mean, you can if you squint. But wow! Fog isn’t unusual, but we aren’t usually this foggy.
Date: Portland City Walk. But in Vancouver.
For our date, Matt and I did one of the walks in the delightful book Portland City Walks by Laura O. Foster. We did the walk that is not a Portland walk at all, but a Vancouver walk. It was a beautiful–if cold and windy–day.
On the way there. Traffic.
Crossing into Washington.
This building at Historic Fort Vancouver was decorated for the holidays. It is available for rent for weddings and parties.
Gorgeous house, Fort Vancouver.
That’s Marshall of the Marshall Plan. He spent time at Fort Vancouver.
View of the I-5 bridge.
Matt, standing in downtown Vancouver’s Sculpture Garden. I had no idea downtown Vancouver had a sculpture garden.
Pretty church, all dressed up for the holiday.
I liked the brickwork patterns used to block off the former windows.
A mural of old time-y downtown Vancouver.
Palm tree! Sparkly stucco house! Red trim! Very exciting!
After this picture, it became dark very rapidly. It was a good walk.
Protest Art, Vancouver/Williams
Wooden sign, paint.
Walking from the #4 to lunch
I had a lunch date and took the #4, then walked through the Mississippi neighborhood to get to my destination. Here are two things I saw.
There was a period in American home ownership, when reusing pipes as boarders/fences/rails was a thing. Here is a nice example. My grandfather also reused pipes for handrails.
I love the sliding nature of this fence. It’s not tipping over. Rather, the slats were the slightest bit off, and then kept getting worse and worse. There’s a story behind the creation of this fence.
Half the sky
Walking over the Steel Bridge this morning.
The east side of Portland has the sun, but the clouds are creeping in from the west side.
Silver Falls Hike
One of the things I love about the digital photo area is that you can take photos of the map to refer to later in the hike.
We chose to do the big hike, seeing the maximum number of waterfalls.
Matt poses before a graphic warning sign.
Here we are at Upper North Falls. 65 feet.
A “twin” falls.
The view from behind the falls.
Lots of rain means lots of white water.
Matt consults the map.
That mass of white behind us is a waterfall. It was powerful stuff.
Another view of the water. We’ve done this hike in the summer and it’s fun, but it was a totally different experience in the winter.
Drake Falls says hello. All 27 feet of it.
A double layer of falls. Also: look at all that moss!
Matt looks at the sign for Lower North Falls.
This is a pretty one.
There was a very large amount of stairs near the end.
This was the first hike with my trekking poles and I was pleased with how well they worked for me.