Columbia River Gorge

The Columbia River Gorge is an amazing place, located between the States of Oregon and Washington. It is approximately eighty miles long and up to four thousand feet deep. Created from a combination of ancient volcanic activity, as well as unbelievable flooding at the end of the last glacial period. We hiked mountains and...

The Volcanoes

We began our westward journey in Montana at Glacier National Park. From there we traveled through Idaho to Washington State, south to Oregon and then back east to Idaho, linking together stops in view of several of the volcanos of the Pacific Northwest. We climbed to snow fields, hiked in sub-freezing temperatures in August,...