Columbia River Gorge National Scenic Area

The Columbia River Gorge is a spectacular river canyon cutting the only sea-level route through the Cascade Mountain Range.

It's 80 miles long and up to 4,000 feet deep with the north canyon walls in Washington State and the south canyon walls in Oregon State.




Recreation
Hiking, mountain biking, windsurfing, camping, fishing, boating, wildlife watching, birding, wildflower viewing, photography, picnicking, rock climbing. You can do all this and more in the Columbia River Gorge National Scenic Area.


WATERFALLS
Through millenniums of geologic events, waterfalls have found their home in the Columbia River Gorge. A visit to the area is not complete without a visit to its breathtaking waterfalls.
Multnomah Falls is the second highest year-round waterfall in the United States. Though Multnomah Falls is grand and popular, all of the falls in the Gorge are special and breathtaking.

Pike Place Market & Washington State Ferries

We got a late start on the day today, and decided to take the bus downtown Seattle about 2:00 this afternoon. Once we got downtown and got off the bus at Westlake Center, we decided to run through the Pike Place Market and then run over and see if we could make a ferry run out to Bremerton. as luck would have it, there was a Bremerton ferry loading as we walked up and was leaving in ten minutes. usually we have to wait for the next ferry to arrive(30-60 minutes) when we try and do the walk on ferry. We ended up getting home about 7:30 this evening and were a bit tired from all the walking, but it was worth it to get some pretty good pictures and a visit to the Pike Place Market.