Bike path near Bridal Veil Falls on the Columbia River Gorge

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Multnomah Falls

We didn’t end our bike ride at Mutnomah Falls, but our week of photos is over so I better get the most famous part of this ride in. Above is the “classic view” of the double-tiered falls, complete with the bridge you can walk on between them.

Upper Multnomah Falls from the Benson Footbridge

Looking down Multnomah Falls from the bridge at the lower falls and pool below

Posted on December 19th, 2011 under nature, outside of ashland, people. Tags: columbia river gorge tour, portland, ryan, water, waterfall. Comments Off on Multnomah Falls

Fall foliage near Bridal Veil Falls

Posted on December 18th, 2011 under nature, outside of ashland. Tags: autumn, columbia river gorge tour, leaves. Comments: 1

Shepperd's Dell

Next up, as you can see on the map of the Historic Columbia River Highway, was Shepperd’s Dell. Wiki says that these falls are difficult to photograph, but I beg to differ. A tripod would have been nice for several of my photos during the day, but at Shepperd’s Dell there was a great place to set my camera in order to open the shutter for a half second.

Posted on December 17th, 2011 under nature, outside of ashland. Tags: columbia river gorge tour, waterfall. Comments Off on Shepperd’s Dell

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.

Posted on December 16th, 2011 under outside of ashland, places. Tags: columbia river gorge tour. Comments Off on Historic Columbia River Highway

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.

Posted on December 15th, 2011 under nature, outside of ashland. Tags: columbia river gorge tour, waterfall. Comments: 1

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. 😉

Posted on December 14th, 2011 under nature, outside of ashland. Tags: autumn, columbia river gorge tour, nikon 18-200mm vr ii, nikon d7000, trains. Comments Off on Crown Point Vista House view