A couple of Sundays ago I got my brother, Dennis, and neighbor, Jonna, to go on my favorite short “local” hike with me. I have posted before about Angel’s Rest in the Columbia River Gorge. I like it there. We also looked at Latourell Falls and Vista House which are in the same neighborhood. It never gets old going to those places. It is beautiful.

Usually I have tons of photos in my posts, but not this time. I got all the way out there (it is at least an hour and 15 minutes one way, by way of picking my brother up in Vancouver) and realized I had left my camera’s memory card at home. My camera can only hold 10 photos without a card, so that is how many photos are in this post. This will be my first post in ages that people with dial-up can view.

The views from the top of Angel’s Rest are as gorgeous as anywhere. Please note, my brother’s head is not actually pointy like that. It is just too close to the corner of the frame and got distorted due to wide angle.

That view straight down is wonderful. Sometimes you can see barges and trains going by. Hello, Jonna. I think neither she nor my brother had been up there before. It is a nice place to go. That day there were more people than I have ever seen there before. I did not like that (nor did my brother) because 90% of them were annoying Portland yippie types who think they need to have a dog to be cool and take it everywhere with them no matter how rude it is or how much it pisses other people off. I think about five different people even had the same kind of dog. It was still beautiful up there, just not the same as other times with more privacy.

Someone asked me what the marker said. Here it is.

 

After we hiked back down, along with the wet, off-leash dog that ran into my brother and pissed him off, I drove us over to good ol’ Latourell Falls. This one doesn’t require a hike at all. Maybe I can get my mom to go there when she visits. Thanks to Dennis and Jonna for posing there when it was getting cold.

This is the bridge at Latourell Falls. It is tall and dramatic from underneath, where we walked to a picnic area I did not know about. No photos of that of course. No SD card. I like this photo. When we went to leave there was a deer on the bridge. I had to wait for it to walk down the road and eventually it finally went back into the trees.

We got to Vista House at Crown Point just in time for the end of a beautiful sunset, looking downriver toward Portland.