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Portand, OR

a trip south to Oregonia.

it rained pretty steadily for the whole time we were down there. we still had fun, drank some good beer, saw some nice waterfalls and left with about a dozen ideas of what to do on our next trip.

i especially want to revisit the Historic Columbia River Highway (info here, here, and here). the sky was quite overcast while we were there and we couldn’t see any of the mountains, but the Vista House building itself was quite impressive.

more info, i’m sure, on subsequent trips to oregon.

Big 4

a trip to the meadow at the base of Big 4.

what an incredible trip up to Big 4. we were surprised to find that the Mountain Loop Highway was still open to Barlow Pass – it’s usually closed by late November/early December. we only went as far as Big 4, and the last mile getting there, the road was snow-packed and turning into a slushy/icy mess.

Big 4 was gorgeous. there was about 4 inches of snow on the ground at the base, and you could see it snowing up on the mountain. the whole basin was full of snow which reflected the sun peeking through intermittent clouds.

200 miles for cookies

we drove thru Stevens Pass, over to Leavenworth, WA. Leavenworth is a little town on the east side of the Cascade Moutains.

washington pass

we took a ride up to Washington Pass, in the Northern Cascade Moutains. the destination was chosen because of snow – we miss the regular snowfall that we were used to back east (and seeing mountains and driving twisty roads never hurts, either).

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