Day 17 June 29 2010

Well today we are going to go on the Historic Highway and see a lot of the waterfalls and also the Dam and fish hatchery. It was another beautiful day here we start by a good climb (in the car) to the top to see the Vista House which is a National Historic site. We saw it coming into Portland but had no idea what it was from the highwy way below it. You could climb up to an observation deck and have a beautiful view of the mountains around. Then on to the waterfalls. Some of them were fairly easy to get to but a couple of them required quite a climb. George made all but there was one I just went half up and the other I stayed down. When we went back to the largest falls the sheriff stopped us on our way out. Not knowing what he wanted, but just to thank George for his time in the service. Thanks to Dean Parker, he never goes too far without one of his Navy hats on. That was a relief, we thought we had done something wrong. Ha Ha. On to have a little picnic lunch in the park. We made our next stop to the Dam and went down to see the fish passing thru the area. There were people sitting in a fish counting room doing nothing but counting the number and type of fish passing. Then on to the fish hatchery that is on the same property. They have all their areas up in this part of the country so clean and very well landscaped with the prettiest flowers. After that we went back to RV for the day.


I am looking for anyone going down the river.
The Vista House.

He made it up here also.

The inside of the dome of theVista House.

Great view from up here. Can you make out the car on the highway down there?

Pat getting information about where we will go later from this lady.

The Vista House.

High on a hill overlooking The Columbia River.

Our highway today.

Great colors to the rocks by the falls.

Someone built a bridge for us.

Looks like I am going to get wet.

More beautiful flowers growing wild.

Great Hike and view.

Pat is trailing me.

Nice water flowing down the mountain.

Good Falls up here.

I made another hike of .2 miles.

Very beautiful here and quite.

Another water fall.

Cool bridge.

We were here yesterday, but we had to come back today to visit the "Gift Shop", could you believe that.

The falls again.

The main reason we came back.

Horestail Falls was right on the highway, no hike to see. YEA!

We stopped here to eat a snack in the park along side the highway.

Where we ate lunch today.

Our exit to Bonneville Dam.

Information sign telling us where to go.

As we cross the dam.

The old guard house for the entrance to the Dam.

Information.

More information on the Dam and hatchery.

Check out the size of these Sturgeons. They were at least 6 to 8 ft. lng. and about 300 lbs. ea.

A Fountain and Flag at the info center.

The only Bear we have seen so far on this trip.

See the water falls.

A barge going up the Columbia River.

A beautiful drive on the highway.

We hiked to the top of Larch Mountain so we could see the following mountains. Great view from here. What a hike we made.

The five mountains we could see from up on top.

We could see all of the following mountains real good.

A long way down if you did not stay on the trail.

Along the trail.

Pat going down some stairs along the trail.

Temp at this time of the day.

Mt. Hood National Forest.

An old bridge getting to Mt. Hood National Forest.