Look, on a spectrum of “mountain people” to “beach people”, we’re about as far over towards the mountain side as it gets. However, we’d be lying to you if we said that we didn’t love ourselves some time out on the Oregon Coast around Cannon Beach. Of the towns on the northern coast, we find…
As self-identifying mountain people (not beach people) AND people who don’t really like crowds, you might be surprised to learn that we actually really enjoy Cannon Beach. We try to make it out to Cannon Beach a few times a year, and most of our days are spent on the trail (so we’ve done most…
We’re big fans of Hood River, and it’s a really unique place from a geographical standpoint. It sits right at the border between Oregon and Washington along the Columbia River, but it also sits on the cusp of Oregon’s transition from the green, wet climate on the western side of the Cascades and the dry,…
As you head east out of Portland, the landscape starts to change and you leave the flat valley with a few hills and cinder cones behind and head out along the Columbia River, which funnels you into a deep gorge that has been carved into the Cascades by millions of years of water flowing through…
Since we’re almost always coming from Portland, we usually come down Highway 26 through Government Camp and past Mount Hood. As soon as you cross the Cascades and turn south towards Bend, you start to see the landscapes changing from the ferny underbrush and towering evergreens that are emblematic of Western Oregon, to scrubbrush and…
This is a hike that we were very, very close to not doing on a rainy morning in Bend that came 48 hours after a bout of food poisoning that had Matt down for the count. We were sitting at the gas station pumping gas and decided we would drive out to Sisters (which was…