Great post & photos! I love Oregon, it's my favourite state in the US. Living on Vancouver Island, British Columbia, it's a fairly short trip to get down there... must return soon!
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Great post & photos! I love Oregon, it's my favourite state in the US. Living on Vancouver Island, British Columbia, it's a fairly short trip to get down there... must return soon!
@keithboone thank you! I love your photography too by the way. Yes, Oregon is an amazing place! I hope you get to visit some of these places in your next venture, I especially recommend the Gorge too.
Oh, that's nice of you to say :) I've been to the Gorge in 2014, saw many of those waterfalls... I understand a bad fire has been through the area. How bad was the damage? I saw on TV that Multnomah was largely intact?
@keithboone I didn't hear about this until you mentioned something. So big thanks for sharing. I found some good content on the web stating 100% containment as of Nov 30, 2017. At first I was really sad to hear about this, but this article and video helped, the video is kind of cool too as it talks about the necessity of fire in forests, and shows the damaged and undamaged areas. It still looks beautiful, but definitely will be different having recent burn damage. Thank you again for sharing and hopefully you find the following links helpful too. The video was really cool. http://www.oregonlive.com/wildfires/index.ssf/2017/10/new_map_shows_areas_that_fared.htmlThat was good to see, thanks for sharing. There were so many forest fires last year, it seemed like the entire west coast was burning. We had very bad air conditions and spectacular red sunsets as a result. It's good to hear how quickly nature recovers. I drove through some badly burned areas in Jasper Nat'l Park, Alberta in 2016. Some areas looked grim, frankly not as "nice" as the footage from the helicopter. Still, that video left me feeling more hopeful :)
@keithboone yeah me too, feeling hopeful as well. Fires can be very devastating, especially to places like the Gorge or any national park. It's scary to hear about and to see. It makes me feel for the residents too that live near those areas. Truth is those fires change the landscape, and even though it's nature's course or cycle, it's still a big change for the areas impacted...and also a grief to those who love the areas.