An Oregon "Weather Miracle"!

On a Tuesday in October (10/11) when the weather was supposed to be "showery," Riley Case and I drove up to Multnomah Falls to try the 5-mile Multnomah-Wahkeena Falls Loop. The miracle was that it didn't really rain on us! (a couple of one-minute light showers, but nothing more) Lots of rain on the drive back, but, Providentially, we escaped rain on the 3 1/2 hr. hike.

On the same hike a couple weeks back with Tasha and her roommate, we took the wrong trail at the trail junction pictured and ended-up right back where we started from (Wahkeena Falls). This time I decided we'd do the hike in the opposite direction, and we had no problems. The sky was cloudy most of the time, but there was an occasional burst of sun and the sighting of blue sky. Below Riley and I are pictured at the viewpoint on the way down to Wahkeena Falls.One of the cool things about the hike was the shades of green -- including the moss on the trunks and branches of trees. Very impressive, even on a gray day!

On the drive back home Riley wanted to drive up to Vista Point since he had a number of postcards of the place in his vast postcard collection, and he wanted to verify that the building was still there! - rw