Sunday, October 6th-The “Fruit Loop!”

Today we re-created a daytrip we’ve taken many times before. Here’s the short version: We drove out the old Columbia River Highway through the gorge:
To Multnomah Falls
Through the Hood River Valley
Around the back (East) of Mt Hood
To Timberline Lodge:

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