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The Long Way to Hood River

23 March 2024

  • Added to Eric Scouten :: Travel on 24 March 2024
  • Oregon 11

A last-minute opportunity presented itself and so I am taking a few days to myself as a “me-cation” in the Columbia River Gorge.

I didn’t exactly go the direct route from home to Hood River. (You are shocked, I know.) And I was rewarded with some delightful desert cloudscapes along the way.

A gravel road stretches into the distance across flat sagebrush rangeland toward low, partly snow-dusted hills under a vast, dramatic sky of heavy gray storm clouds with visible rain falling in the distance. A wire fence runs along the right side of the road near the horizon.
northwest of Warm Springs, Oregon
A wide, flat grassland plain under a dramatic, mostly overcast sky with towering gray storm clouds and streaks of rain visibly falling toward the horizon. A dark line of pine trees marks the far edge of the field, with low hills faintly visible in the distance.
northwest of Warm Springs, Oregon
A high desert landscape northwest of Warm Springs, Oregon, with scattered rocks, dry grass, sagebrush, and juniper trees in the foreground, and a low canyon rim or plateau on the horizon under a heavy, dark gray overcast sky with streaks of rain in the distance.
northwest of Warm Springs, Oregon
A high desert landscape northwest of Warm Springs, Oregon, with rolling grassy hills dotted with juniper trees leading toward flat-topped mesas and canyon rims under a heavy overcast sky. Dark rain clouds hang low over the horizon, with streaks of falling rain visible in the distance and a weathered fence line running along the near hillside.
northwest of Warm Springs, Oregon
A wide high-desert landscape of rolling grasslands dotted with scattered juniper trees, backed by low mountains, all under a heavy, dark storm sky with visible rain falling in the distance.
south of Maupin, Oregon
A green river canyon with steep basalt cliffs and grassy slopes, where a long freight train runs along the far bank beside the water under a dramatic sky of broken clouds with the sun breaking through in the upper left.
south of Maupin, Oregon

The night ended with some delightful jazz music at the Hood River Hotel.

Hood River Hotel, Hood River, Oregon
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Poulsbo, Washington, to Hood River, Oregon · 660 km / 410 mi

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