http://randyandrachel.com/2009/07/08/mt-hood-and-columbia-river-gorge/ Our home on the web Sat, 13 Mar 2010 03:19:20 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 http://randyandrachel.com/2009/07/08/mt-hood-and-columbia-river-gorge/comment-page-1/#comment-5702 Randy and Rachel » Blog Archive » Columbia Gorge (east end) Sat, 18 Jul 2009 05:12:31 +0000 http://randyandrachel.com/?p=1103#comment-5702 [...] Our original plan for Sunday morning was to head to the west side of Mount St Helens.  However; after checking the weather report, it seemed like it might be a bit useless.  Overcast throughout the entire region for the whole day.  No matter, one of the greatest things about this area of the country is if you head an hour in any direction you’ll hit a different climate zone.  So that’s exactly what we did.  When we went out to the Columbia Gorge last we were a bit rushed and didn’t get a chance to check everything out that we wanted to.   This time we took I84 straight out the gorge and didn’t take any detours until we passed route 35 (the farthest out we made it last time). [...] [...] Our original plan for Sunday morning was to head to the west side of Mount St Helens.  However; after checking the weather report, it seemed like it might be a bit useless.  Overcast throughout the entire region for the whole day.  No matter, one of the greatest things about this area of the country is if you head an hour in any direction you’ll hit a different climate zone.  So that’s exactly what we did.  When we went out to the Columbia Gorge last we were a bit rushed and didn’t get a chance to check everything out that we wanted to.   This time we took I84 straight out the gorge and didn’t take any detours until we passed route 35 (the farthest out we made it last time). [...]

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