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Jan. 5th, 2012 03:08 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lupagreenwolfI went on my first hike of the year today, out at the Multnomah-Wahkeena Loop. Had some various spiritual and related musings along with it which you can read here.
This shot is looking East down the Columbia River Gorge After I'd been hiking about a mile; as it had been raining off and on all day, there was a great deal of fog here and there, including some low-hanging clouds maybe a hundred yards over the land/water at times.
As I was hiking, I noticed just how bright and green the ferns were, since the only fronds left were the very youngest. Here's a close-up of a few of them.
If you tend toward vertigo you probably don't want to lean out quite this far over the railing at the viewpoint at the top of Multnomah Falls! That first drop is 542 feet!
This one didn't turn out quite as nicely as I would have hoped, but it caught one of the advantages of hiking the Gorge on an overcast day--the Columbia River as a huge mirror!
One of the hazards of hiking, especially in the winter when trail maintenance is little to none, is the presence of various obstacles in the way. This one thankfully had been cleared enough to get through, but there were a number of places where the weather had trashed the trail pretty well.
At the end of a bit of side trail, there was a bit of--well, not quite a cliff, more just a very, very steep hill. I crept out onto the near edge of it to get this shot.
The only wild animal I saw on the entire hike was one female dark-eyed junco (which I didn't get a good shot of). The only other trace was this old, abandoned spider web in some lichen and moss-covered rocks.
Another shot of the Columbia, higher up, still facing East.
As long as I can remember, this old trail sign has been blank. Between now and the last time I did this hike, someone chalked a picture of a key on it. Opening the trail ahead--perhaps I should have added an invocation to Wepwawet while I was there!
There are a couple of trees with exposed roots that I love taking pictures of every time I do this hike, and this was the best shot from this trip through.
The Columbia River is fed in part by tiny little trickles of rain drainage and snowmelt like this one high up on the mountain.
This looks like it's one of what was once a set of informational plaques about various flora around the falls. Even though I've hiked there many times this is the only one I've seen of this style. As you can see it's old and rather well-worn, probably having survived several attempts to remove it.
This might be my favorite picture of the entire collection--a close-up of a surreal "face" on the trunk of a long-dead and well-weathered tree.
This shot is looking East down the Columbia River Gorge After I'd been hiking about a mile; as it had been raining off and on all day, there was a great deal of fog here and there, including some low-hanging clouds maybe a hundred yards over the land/water at times.
As I was hiking, I noticed just how bright and green the ferns were, since the only fronds left were the very youngest. Here's a close-up of a few of them.
If you tend toward vertigo you probably don't want to lean out quite this far over the railing at the viewpoint at the top of Multnomah Falls! That first drop is 542 feet!
This one didn't turn out quite as nicely as I would have hoped, but it caught one of the advantages of hiking the Gorge on an overcast day--the Columbia River as a huge mirror!
One of the hazards of hiking, especially in the winter when trail maintenance is little to none, is the presence of various obstacles in the way. This one thankfully had been cleared enough to get through, but there were a number of places where the weather had trashed the trail pretty well.
At the end of a bit of side trail, there was a bit of--well, not quite a cliff, more just a very, very steep hill. I crept out onto the near edge of it to get this shot.
The only wild animal I saw on the entire hike was one female dark-eyed junco (which I didn't get a good shot of). The only other trace was this old, abandoned spider web in some lichen and moss-covered rocks.
Another shot of the Columbia, higher up, still facing East.
As long as I can remember, this old trail sign has been blank. Between now and the last time I did this hike, someone chalked a picture of a key on it. Opening the trail ahead--perhaps I should have added an invocation to Wepwawet while I was there!
There are a couple of trees with exposed roots that I love taking pictures of every time I do this hike, and this was the best shot from this trip through.
The Columbia River is fed in part by tiny little trickles of rain drainage and snowmelt like this one high up on the mountain.
This looks like it's one of what was once a set of informational plaques about various flora around the falls. Even though I've hiked there many times this is the only one I've seen of this style. As you can see it's old and rather well-worn, probably having survived several attempts to remove it.
This might be my favorite picture of the entire collection--a close-up of a surreal "face" on the trunk of a long-dead and well-weathered tree.
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on 2012-01-05 03:29 pm (UTC)These are lovely photos. Thank you for sharing them.
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