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Historic Columbia River Highway
A beautiful highway to drive, it’s even better on a bike. In fact, the worst part of the Historic Columbia River Highway was the cars. I imagine it is lovely in any season, but with the leaves changing colors, late October was a great time of year to do this ride.
Latourell Falls in the Columbia River Gorge
The first, of about eight or nine, waterfalls on our ride was Latourell Falls. I wasn’t able to include all of this waterfall’s 250 feet in the photo at 18mm from this vantage point and also include the stream the waterfall feeds. You can probably see about 180-200 feet of Latourell Falls in this picture. A wider angle lens would have been nice at times, but when you are riding a bike for 10 miles, carrying multiple lenses isn’t much of an option.
A train cuts through the meadow during autumn in the Columbia River Gorge
Today’s photo is from the same location as yesterday’s pic. At 200mm and with a bit of a crop you can see that the details of the valley below are just as gorgeous as the wide-angle view.
I have marked the location of this scene with an X on the map below.
Just to the north of this location is Rooster Rock State Park which is supposedly a nude beach. It wasn’t part of our tour. 😉
In late October we went to Portland for a couple nights. On the only whole day we had in Portland we took a Pedal Bike Tours bike ride called “Columbia River Gorge Tour” (mostly) down the Historic Columbia River Highway. While I took a few hundred photos along the way, I will spare you all but seven of those pictures over the coming week.
Our first stop on the tour was the Portland Women’s Forum, a state scenic viewpoint. However, today’s photo is from our second stop, the Crown Point Vista House.
Nick on bass for Atriarch
Tenguska opened for the band I really went to see on Thursday night, Atriarch.
Atriarch's magic box - inside are the tools of distortion which can transport the careful listener into another realm
Brooks lights the ancient oak, filling the place with smoke before blackening his eyes with the ashes
Lenny on vocals for Atriarch
Brooks on guitar and Maxamillion on drums -- the drums were the only instrument that sounded anything like "normal"
Atriarch put on an incredible show. I only hope it isn’t the last time I get to experience the atmosphere they are able to create with their live performance.
Tenguska (doom metal band from Ashland, Oregon)
Tenguska @ Johnny B's in Medford, Oregon
You can’t see him in these photos, but the Tenguska drummer, Garrison Mau, dedicated their performance to David Grubbs, his best friend.
Christmas Trees at U-Cut Christmas Tree Farm on the border of Phoenix and Medford, Oregon covered in hoarfrost
We cut down our Christmas tree this past Sunday. The temperature was 28 degrees in the early afternoon and the fog was rather thick. The trees were covered in fog freeze. Even after driving home to Ashland and letting the tree sit out in the sun for the rest of the day the tree was still covered in hoarfrost. We finally brought it in before dark and stood the tree up over a bunch of towels in our living room. It sounded like it was raining in our house for the next half hour as the fog freeze finally melted.
If you are in Southern Oregon during December you should check out Jacksonville’s annual Victorian Christmas. Jacksonville’s “Victorian Christmas Parade” is tomorrow night beginning at 6 p.m.
Slow Children at the Rogue Theatre
Slow Children, a band from Brookings (I think), opened for Floater. They sounded pretty good, sometimes sounding a lot like Floater in fact. Turns out there are numerous bands with this same name. They probably should have found a name that hasn’t already been taken. Anyway, they came out for Floater’s encore to play Helter Skelter as a six piece band. Check it out…
Floater w/ Slow Children at Rogue Theatre - November 18, 2011
