Columbia River Gorge
On a warm and sunny day I hiked to Elowah Falls in the Columbia River Gorge. The trailhead is only a couple of miles from the Bonneville Dam. It’s a two-mile hike with a few hundred feet of elevation gain to the little-visited waterfall.
Elowah Falls
Elowah Falls
The trail climbed for awhile before leveling out with views far up and down the Columbia River. Soon the trail began a steep descent with switchbacks to the natural bowl beneath the 289-foot Falls. It’s located in a beautiful area with a torrent of water pouring off the lip of a high cliff. It’s one of the prettier waterfalls in the Gorge and it’s the second highest after Multnomah Falls.
New growth in the area of the Eagle Creek Wildfire
Columbine
Kids playing under the waterfall
Fireweed
Elowah Falls (fellow hiker looks small at base of falls)
Thimbleberry
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