Multnomah Falls

wooooo, early morning post.
I'm getting ready to get out the door and go down the coast. FINALLY
I thought I ought to make an attempt at posting some pictures of something before I am removed from the internets for a few days.
Probably should have done this a few days ago but ugh...

So James, Susan, Gabz, Katrina and I all crammed into the car one afternoon and drove out to Multnomah Falls. The Oregon wilderness is incredible and so are you.
Apologies for the lack of editing today, will fix soon.(at least they're in semi-chronological order)

Update:
Okey doke. I have some more pictures and commentary to fill out the remainder of this photo hike.







































THE TOP


I can see the car from here






The way these trees are curved gives a pretty neat wide-angle lens feel.






Discovering a few things about the white balance and the flash





More frothy flash fun







Some rock scrawling


Rock overhang! The surface along much of this trail is either hacked into the rock next to the river or gravel retaining walls.

Also, this is when the sunlight began to dim


more waterfalls




the walls of this canyon thing are crazy


wat? uh, er, falls

We turned around and made it back to the main paved tourist path by dark.

Recent Items of Interest

1/24/11
Here's some stuff.
Mostly I'm putting these links here because my idea of using the Facebook as a bookmarking service has backfired and I can't seem to find any of the links I've posted farther than a month or two ago.

Bum:(

snailfarming

rubik's cube solving

tongue splitting

freezing frogs

international brotherhood of electrical workers
electrical working apprenticeships in the NW

neon sign making

IRS auctions

interesting story about amateur russian space watchers

the remains of geocities

public info caching

oregon state auctions

armored gangsters

math mapping stuff

mind bending video about DNA

wearing your bike helmet

ciabatta bread

making an AM transmitter

pictures from cassini

the first dog in space

optical illusion

huge nebula picture, zoomable

pictures of wasp and fly wings

hatzegopteryx, never forget

camera disguises

martian clouds

steel skies

animal music

Nipheblepsia

DIY CCD for astrophotography

where to find clinical trials

photographer I ran across in downtown portland

oregon hotsprings

urban explorer's resource

looks fun

bag

stuff about ambrotypes

To the Beach!

1/15

Last night, during the pizza party, it was decided that we were going to drive to Cannon Beach today. I found a couple looking to ride there too and contribute to gas money.
We picked up Vivian and then Johnny and his girlfriend and got on the road to the beach. It's a pretty pleasant drive, about 90 miles, and would probably be a blast to bike in the summer.
When we got there, we dropped our rideshare friends off at their cabin and just parked out front. It was a short walk down to the beach and although it was raining it wasn't all that bad. Fortunately I had a umbrella in the car.


Fog and rain.


Haystack Rock slowly materialized out of the fog.





We walked down the beach some more and found cool shells and a bird skull.
A river cut across the beach so we had to turn around. The tide had been going out this whole time so on the way back we were able to climb up on the rocks and get closer to Haystack rock.


Anemones


It's really tempting to touch these things. Probably not a good idea.








At this point it was really raining and the wind was pretty fierce. My camera was beginning to get wet which is why these are focused kinda strange.

We were all completely soaked at this point and sort of found some food. This bagel place was ridiculously over priced and it was neigh on impossible to find the grocery store to get some reasonably priced snacky food.

Drove home.


1/16
Went to a potluck. There was alot of food, I brought oranges.