Before you start along the Clackamas River Trail, there's a vault toilet next to two flights of stairs that invite you to come on down to the water. And rest. #ClackamasRiver #ClackamasCounty #Oregon #OregonExplored

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We drove along the Molalla River for nearly five miles before pulling into a gravel lot we'd been warned to watch for #ShotgunFalls #ClackamasCounty #Oregon #OregonExplored

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It is good to remember that the forest after a fire is more than a metaphor for my own experience. But it gives me words. It illustrates. And comforts #WahkeenaTrail #ColumbiaGorge #MultnomahCounty #Oregon #OregonExplored

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This trail above the river kept opening up and inviting us to gaze on the snow-salted ridges at either end of the canyon #ClackamasRiver #ClackamasCounty #Oregon #OregonExplored

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There's always that one spot along the water #FallsCreekFalls #GiffordPinchotNationalForest #Washington #WashingtonExplored

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We parked in Lot B and waited in line for gondola rides to the top of the slopes. There, we found a crowd in lawn chairs on the snow, picnicking, taking in the view, and tolerating the little birds that flitted in to grab at bits of beef jerky and granola bars #CrystalMountainResort #MountRainier #Washington #WashingtonExplored

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Ferns crowding the top-side of each branch like a forest within a forest #ClatsopLoop #EcolaStatePark #CannonBeach #Oregon #OregonExplored

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