White Salmon, WA | BAD TRAVELS

White Salmon, WA

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Spent a week here, it’s right on the Columbia Gorge, just opposite Hood River, Oregon. Incredibly beautiful scenery, lots to see and do. Need to come back and spend at least month, maybe 2! Check out the BLOG!

Mt Hood

View of Mt Hood, on the Oregon side

Hood River OR

Hood River OR

Hood river toll bridge

Hood river toll bridge, crossed it quite a few times

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Columbia Gorge....gorgeous!

Kiteboarders

A few of the kite boarders & windsurfers

Hanging out at Ian and Chris’s site....2 sites over from ours

Our site

Beside the big rig

One of our largest neighbours, made us feel really, really small. The travelers that own rigs this big must be loaded, they even paid for a separate site for their car! They didn’t socialize much with us trailer trash!

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Trying to go swimming but too frigging cold...notice that I’m not that crazy!

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On calm days, stand up paddle boarders were working their way back and forth the gorge

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But they have to share the water way with big boats...

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He was trying to catch the wake, crazy boy

Osprey nest

Osprey nest

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The white water rafting company we used....Wet Planet

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The falls that our raft co. used to do but wouldn’t after earlier attempts resulted in smushed boats and people falling out & into the falls. Not worth the risk so we went around it like these guys did. Fine by us!

But this raft company was still taking the risk….A high 5, they made it down safe and sound but damm glad we didn’t do it!

More of the rapids

July 4th log jam....day we went, we were the only 3 boats, much nicer and a lot less chaos!

Mt Adams, Washington

Started this trail a bit late in the day. It had 2 trail heads so thought it looped but got to end at 7:30 pm and it took us 1 1/2 hr to get there. Hoofed it back in about 70 min, thought of bears is a good incentive to move!!

Just one little push and I’d be going a long, long way down!

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Watching the fireworks

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This was a shorter and much more scenic hike than the other one we did...there are 10 other falls we didn’t get to see!

It’s cold, but not as cold as the White Salmon water

Could only see the bottom 2 tiers of the Falls

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As close as they could get, got a good misting, not sure you could survive the pressure of these falls anyways

Ian & Dave

Mt Hood from WA side

Mt Hood from WA side

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