After we stopped in at Hawthorne Cutlery, where Dan helped
me to select a new Benchmade knife, we spent most of Friday in the Columbia
River Gorge and on the historic Columbia River Highway, built a hundred years
ago by some local visionaries as one of the nation’s first scenic roads for
automobile tourists. For the time it was a remarkable feat of engineering and
even today it remains a spectacular drive that takes you through the gorge and
the waterfalls. We’ve done it before and we will do it again.
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| My new knife, I really have to be careful about this. |
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| Even with I-84 running alongside Historic Route 30, the Columbia River Highway, remains popular, we drove about as much of it as remains. |
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| The original Oneonta tunnel. Filled after it was bypassed in 1948 and restored in 2009 |
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| You can feel, hear and generally sense the power of the waters |
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| Multnomah Falls |
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| The popular Oneonta gorge |
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| The Vista House, built around 1916, bestrides the gorge |
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