Columbia River Gorge

[surfered]

Where the high was 63 yesterday

Mt Hood from the plane approaching Portland


Columbia River Gorge


Flowers of the NW


Horse Tail Falls


And did I mention there are wineries 🍷?

[SheltieLover]

1. Beautiful!

Thx for sharing!

[Maru Kitteh]

2. The GREAT Pacific Northwest.

[Botany]

3. The Glacier on the top of Mt. Hood is gone.

Years ago I was hiking by the Three Sisters Mountains in Central Oregon and the Glaciers on their
Peaks were multiple feet deep in August.

[RT Atlanta]

7. they are melting for sure...

Palmer is more of a snowfield these days than a glacier.

There is some ebb and flow too depending on the year's snowpack, with this year having been very light on the deep snow....

[Botany]

9. Mt. Hood's Glacier used to cover the top 1/4 of the Mountain year round but now you can now see the rocks

peaking through even @ the top of the mountain and summer is just beginning. This is really
scary shit. The fossil fuel industries control so much of our government, media, and Trump
and the GOP are their employees. What I am seeing is no longer a glacier but left over snow
pack from last winter.

[surfered]

8. Glacier National Park no longer has a glacier. That darn Chinese hoax again

[Botany]

10. Well when the Park was started there were 200 named glaciers as of 10 years ago there was 30.

&t=1s

[erronis]

12. Great video. It is interssting seeing the corporate images and hearing the realigy voice-over.

[pdxflyboy]

4. Home, sweet home.

Thank you, surfered!

[surfered]

5. Envy your summers . Not sure about your winters.

[livetohike]

6. So beautiful! Thanks for posting these. I feel

cooler now since it’s presently 94 degrees here in SC.

[surfered]

11. Yeah, been to SC in July once. it's just too hot at home on the Gulf Coast. Would prefer to flee the heat of August,

but I feel the need to be home during hurricane season, just in case.

[livetohike]

13. Supposedly, it's going to be a quiet hurricane

season. We’ll see.

[surfered]

14. Yes. Last year was a La Nina year and forecast to be more active,

yet there wasn’t any tropical system.

This year is supposed to be an El Niño year and less active, but Andrew ravaged Florida in an El Niño year.

You never know.

[Mme. Defarge]

15. My absolute favorite place on earth!

[Ilikepurple]

16. Beautiful. I clicked on this expecting a view from Vantage, Washington on I90

As a frequent traveler between Seattle and Spokane, I was expecting a much less green view.

[montanacowboy]

19. The view from Vantage coming in from Spokane

is truly magnificant. Roll on Columbia roll on......

Leaving Seattle area tomorrow for a week in Canada going up to Fraser River Valley. Packing three muts to a nice quiet Air BNB and get away from the madness of these gd fireworks.

Happy 4th everyone!!

[Ilikepurple]

21. I've spent most of my BC time in Coastal or Eastern BC, but it all seems beautiful.

I’ve lived in Spokane half my life and Seattle the other half and made 6-12 trips a year since I was 16, so I recognize the view winding down to that bridge coming from Spokane. It’s beautiful and a reminder that I was either halfway there or halfway home.
Enjoy the scenery, your dogs and your respite. Fireworks are just starting to kick in here.

[AllaN01Bear]

18. wow. nice pics .

[ReRe]

20. Thanks, surfered, for those pics

They remind me of the song From A Distance.