As night fell, campers built fires and gathered to cook and socialize. After spending the day looking out at the vast expanse of the Pacific, the flickering fires focused our attention on the beach with the roar of the waves reminding us of the vast ocean expanse.

A couple of days after returning from Cannon Beach, Sunshine, Rich, and I traveled along the Columbia to Multnomah Falls, the most visited attraction in Oregon. The 611-foot wide falls drops down a cliff in giant steps on the north side of Larch Mountain.

The trees in Oregon are much different than the trees in Wisconsin. They're bigger . . .
















and because of the significant rain fall, they're often covered in moss.

The Benson Bridge, which was built in 1925, provides incredible views of both sections of Multnomah Falls.

If the falls were not such a tourist destination, swimming in the pool below the first falls would be fun, especially in late July.

Another shot of that inviting pool.

Multnomah Falls is the second highest vertical drop in the United States.

On our last day in Oregon, we drove to Mount Hood. From the distance, we had a pretty good view of the entire peak, but as we drove closer, we would catch glipses between the forest and the foothills.

Timberline Lodge was used for the exterior shots in the Kubrick film, The Shining. The enormous scale of the lodge drawfs visitors much like the terrain outside its windows dwarfs everything else.

Although we were at Timberline Lodge in late July, the snow was deep enough for snowboarding.

We traveled toward Sea-Tac again for yet another "red-eye" flight--this time from Seattle to Minneapolis.