Oregon Waterfalls

Oregon has many very beautiful Waterfalls and I was able to get to see a number of them.  All but one required a bit of a hike but that was okay.  A few years ago while I was working a contract in Salem Oregon I made a rode trip to see the Multnomah Falls, as my luck would have it, it was closed for rebuilding the walking bridge.  Well, at last I got to see it!  Check it further down below.

Latourell Falls

Isn't the formation of the rock amazing.  Try enlarging it to really see the shape.

Shepperds Dell Falls

Bridal Veil Falls

Multnomah Falls with the bridge wwaaaayyyy up there!

Can you believe people standing on the very old wooden bridge over the falls?

This is Mt. Hood as seen as we drove along to the different falls.

Lewis & Clark Reenactment

In several of the interpretive centers we saw reenactments of how the Corp of Discovery members managed daily their lives.

We got lessons on how the muzzle loader works.

Camp tent

It is loud and has a flame at the end of the barrel

A demonstration of melting lead and making lead balls for ammunition

These are the front and back of one of the three sizes of medallions used for trading with the Indians.

Wet leather is tanned using a post and stretching and pulling the leather over it until it is dry.

Ocean water is boiled away to get the left over salt.

Another corp members tent.

The boiled water is poured into this sieve and the salt is left.

Then the salt is left out to dry.

The ranger showed us how a tee pee is put up and some of us helped put it up.

Well, at least it is still standing!

Here's the gang.

Montana, Lumberjack Saloon and bears

Every evening at dusk the trash cans, around some of the RVs and next to two campers who slept in a tent were visited by two bears.  Several of the WINs saw them at times.  Here are prints of one.

It rained and then hailed, these are actually the size of dimes.

Not very big?  Check out the comparison.

That's Dan's foot and the bears.