In a land full of towering waterfalls like the Columbia River Gorge, how do you choose which one to visit? We first decided to tackle the Wahclella Falls Trail on our way back from a weekend away at Hood River as we were driving back to Portland along I-84 on the Oregon side of the…
We’ve become a little bit obsessed with the Washington side of the Columbia River Gorge. While it is full of great hikes with sweeping views up and down the Gorge like Dog Mountain and Hamilton Mountain, it also happens to be THE place to go to see wildflowers in the spring and early summer. The…
While we love our adopted home state of Oregon and places like Mount Rainier and Olympic National Park, if you ask us to name our favorite hiking destination in the Pacific Northwest (the west coast?), both of our minds go straight to North Cascades National Park (and the Mount Baker Wilderness, too). Why do we…
Mount Baker has become one of our favorite places in the Pacific Northwest. It has all of the alpine splendor that you find in places like Mount Rainier (which we also love – here are our guides!), but with a tiny fraction of the crowds because of its location tucked away along the Canadian border….
Here’s the short version of this entire guide: this hike is a nonstop showstopper for a relatively moderate effort, and immediately jumped into our list of favorite trails in the Northwest. If you can handle the distance and elevation, you should absolutely do it! In the car on the way down, we were talking about…
It is no exaggeration to say that, until recently, the Saddle Mountain trail was high on our “to-do” list of Oregon hikes for approximately the entire time we were aware of its existence. Well known for both its proximity to Portland and the stunning views from the top, the only problem with the hike to…