vadae falls

vidae falls is right off the side of the road on the east side of the rim of crater lake

are you sick of crater lake area yet? well I am getting near the end of my posts on the lake.   I think I could spend a month here just hiking around time and money time and money

liberty lake waterfall

yeah the crowd roars we made it to the waterfall



bet you are glad I finally got somewhere with all these posts right? haha well I am the weekend warrior so need to spread out the trip.

we stopped for lunch here and enjoyed the view.  so proud of our little chunky monkey dog for making the trip too.  he is really a couch potato and its hard for those little legs to go but he did.  and of course he got some good lunch too.  one quick pose and we were headed back down the mountain.

palouse falls

one of my favorite places to viist.  these falls sit in the middle of farmland.  the palouse has some of the richest soil around.   these falls are very dangerous though. 

if you want to watch something crazy here is a kayaker going over the falls in a world record attempt:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mrveNdW_sj0


check out this and other sunday best submissions here:

waterfall

there are several water features in the FDR memorial representing the troubled to calm times in his presidencency. 

ps. almost done with the memorial only one more

trail beauty

this waterfall greats riders at the exit of the Hiawatha Trails longest tunnels.  A refreshing beauty and much photographed stop.

For those like myself that chose to take the bus back to the top we ride along this rode.  Its barely a one way road and at several points its a little scary.

You can see a hint of the trestles we will be crossing

the beauty of the forest

this beautiful meadow and creek are over 200 feet below us.

ahhhh the refreshing sound of water along the way.

101/365 april 11

Today my dad, brother Paul, hubby and I drove to Palouse falls. Its about 2 hours away from home. You have to drive through cow pastures and farm land most of which is wheat and grasses. Its this enormous waterfall that comes from the Palouse river. Its unusual in that most of what you see on the drive is flat lands and some rolling hills you wouldn't expect to find a river in the middle of this. this land was originally carved out millions of years ago by several ice flows that broke loose in Missoula Montana and then flooded the area. The soil is rich from the basalt rock that lies beneath it and over time has broken down. Perfect farm land.




In previous years we have hiked around to the top of the waterfall but we decided not to do this time. It was a bit windy as well. But we did find a trail to the bottom of the waterfall and will come back this summer when the water is a bit lower and easier to get to the falls and do that. We did have a little fun at the top of one of the ridges as well. Those signs cracked us up.

it was a great day for an outing and having my brother and dad there made it better.