Wednesday's wonderful wet and wild waterfalls

If you enjoy scenic hikes, then the next time you are in Portland, Oregon, drive out Interstate 84 east about 18 miles to the "Bridal Veil" exit, and you will be entering a most beautiful world. There are easy hiking trails that begin at several spots along the old Columbia Highway 30 which runs parallel to I-84. These trails take you up the mountain to incredibly beautiful, powerful waterfalls. We spent Wednesday hiking up and down the trails and saw six lovely waterfalls. First was the Wahkeena Falls, above

Then we hiked along the trail, and this is a view of the Columbia River from the trail. The river is the dividing line between Oregon and Washington, so that's Washington across the river.

I'm on the trail to Multnomah Falls

Jerry in front of Multnomah Falls


Multnoma Falls

Multnomah Falls

Along the trail to Triple Falls...there was a rocky overhang, so I'm holding it up.

Trail to Triple Falls

Horsetail Falls Trail

I'm on the bridge that is in front of Triple Falls.

Triple Falls

Jerry is in the cave behind Ponytail Falls.

I crawled as far back as I could in the cave behind Ponytail Falls.

This is the view from behind Ponytail Falls. Can you see the yellow lab swimming in the pool at the base of the falls?

Behind Ponytail Falls.

We continued hiking along Horsetail Falls Trail; this is the view from there of the Columbia River again and the state of Washington across the river.

At last we reached the end of the trail to see Horsetail Falls--a long skinny one.

Jerry tried to capture as much of Horsetail Falls as possible, so he took this one of me while pointing up from the ground. I was hoping I wouldn't slip on those rocks.

So I took a similar shot of Jerry. It looks like lightning is striking him.

Then we drove over to Bridal Veil Falls and took a short hike out to the falls, and this is Bridal Veil Falls...It had the most water going over it of all the falls.

Bridal Veil Falls

Some fellow hikers offered to take our picture in front of Bridal Veil, so here we are after two hours of hiking, still looking fresh....lol :D