Summer 2014 - PNW Volunteer & Road Trip

[profdlp]

Dazzling, as always. :waytogo:

 

[al7fi]

More from inside Yellowstone:

I love these guys - I wish we had them around home.

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Ravens Rule!!!!!!!

 

[yellocoyote]

The last of the Yellowstone images...

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[yellocoyote]

Grand Teton National Park - Wyoming

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[CobraNutt]

Outstanding! Thanks for sharing your adventure with us!!

 

[Harri]

Awesome thread! Love the pics

 

[LibertyTC]

Jayme great trip & photos ! I have never been to many of the areas you enjoyed.
I would like one day to tour though Yellowstone Pk & Wyoming. 1500 KM one way from here.
If i remember reading correctly you made to Oregon. Do you go any further north or to Van BC?

 

[yellocoyote]

I'm not even close to being done with photos. Many, many more still... but it's hell-month for work in August, and I barely have time to look at my normal internet stuff, let alone edit photos. Hopefully the work will mellow out in a couple more weeks and I can breathe again.

I made it to, and spent a week in the Portland area. Took a week between Chicago and Portland, drove up the coast and east into Tacoma, WA... and then took a week to meander back because of a job promotion and needing to start earlier than normal. I'd hoped to get to Seattle and BC, but it just didn't happen. Next time.

 

[yellocoyote]

I guess I didn't upload the last round of images that I finished processing a couple of weeks ago. My bad. Here are those, and some new ones that I went through this evening.

Craters of the Moon National Park
Idaho

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View from above Bend, Oregon

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Wicked sunset this night, here in Bend... eek2.jpg

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US 20... where it ended in Newport, Oregon.

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Yaquina Bay Bridge - Newport, OR

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[al7fi]

Ya still got it!!!!!

So where to next year?

Concerned fans want to know..... Just asking', ya understand..

Lots of pretty (AK style) leaf color changes going on up here. Can snow be far behind?

 

[yellocoyote]

So where to next year?

Concerned fans want to know..... Just asking', ya understand..

I hear ya, trust me... I do.

Due to the job situation, I probably won't be going anywhere next year... at least, not that far and not for long.

After that... well, we'll see.

Yes, I'm in Alaska withdrawal already. :blah:

 

[yellocoyote]

Yaquina Head Lighthouse - Newport, Oregon

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Devil's Punchbowl - Otter Rock, Oregon

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One of the dune trails near Pacific City, Oregon

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Sea Stack (Haystack Rock) - near Pacific City, Oregon

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Views near Cannon Beach, Oregon

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[CobraNutt]

Good stuff, Jayme! I miss the PNW sometimes...

 

[yellocoyote]

Me too - every day I'm editing photos.

 

[LibertyTC]

Maybe Jayme one day...you can make it up here..
I keep wishing to have summer holidays and get back on this hwy in BC Canada.
In all of my travels here, this is the only hwy that looks like this.
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I would like to have a canoe to throw on top of the Jeep.....
Cause this road leads to great camping and a long beautiful lake!
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[yellocoyote]

Still on my to-do list... just like everywhere else.

 

[yellocoyote]

From Sauvie Island, near Portland...
This island is mostly wildlife refuge and farmland. Lots of U-Pick farms and flower fields.

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And you really can't beat the view of Mount Saint Helens from here - particularly since it's over 80 miles away.

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Eugene and I made an overnight run to Crater Lake National Park.

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With the weather and the snow still on the ground, I wasn't convinced that I'd see anything... luckily, I was incorrect.

Wizard Island

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Phantom Ship

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I think I was rather fortunate to see anything, giving the wall of clouds and precipitation on the other side of the crater.

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I went to sleep with the above views, but woke up to this... in mid-June.

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More later!

 

[profdlp]

...I went to sleep with the above views, but woke up to this... in mid-June...

Well, that's what you get for having that license plate. :happy175:

Very nice, as always. You really have the eye - and then some!

 

[CobraNutt]

Love these last shots, Jayme, especially the two Phantom Ship shots! Nice work!

 

[yellocoyote]

I've been on hiatus from this for a long while. My apologies for that. Life... well... you know.

Anyway, I've finally finished the photo edits and uploads, and this will likely be the last image post for this trip.

I last left you with the morning of snow at Crater Lake. The weather did not cooperate at all that morning... none of the lake was visible. So I chose not to stick around, and instead, meandered my way back north to Portland.

I did, however, have the strong urge to bring Eugene to his namesake.

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I found something interesting, and maddening, about the interstate drivers in the Portland area. It seems that NO ONE has even a minute grasp on the concept of slower vehicles keeping to the right. No one. It gets bad sometimes on the Chicago highways... but holy hell... you would swear that those drivers had never heard of the concept.

After finishing out my time at the chestnut farm, I chose to venture out to Mt. Hood... to see it up close. But, as luck would have it, cloud-cover once again did not work to my benefit. Up-close, nothing could be seen. Even so from a distance. There were other cool vistas to entertain though.

One of the valleys in the Mt. Hood area - many orchards/farms here.

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I confided with the weather app on my phone, and decided to spend the rest of the afternoon and part of the next morning cruising the Columbia River Gorge before the rain rolled in.

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Love views like this one... with the small ribbon of the interstate at the bottom.

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The Dalles Dam... at the easternmost part of the Gorge, and looking across the Columbia River at Washington.

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Heading back to the west, I ran into the waterfall region of the Gorge. Lovely hiking and waterfalls abound here!

Horsetail Falls

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The evening view from Cascade Locks, Oregon.

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And the famous Multnomah Falls.

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And some of the other falls in the area...

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The 2-lane Columbia River Highway was pretty to drive - much of it looking like this.

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And as the rain rolled in the next day, I stopped for my last view in The Gorge... at an old rest stop along the Columbia River Highway called the Vista House (http://vistahouse.com)

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On my journey back west to the Pacific Coast Highway, the weather straightened out some and became rather enjoyable. I was extremely pleased to find miles and miles of, what I like to call, beach highway to drive as opposed to taking the paved roads north. Sure, I didn't go as fast as I probably would have on the road... but that was mostly by chose. I mean, why would you want to miss all this?!

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And the sentry guards along my route were nice to look at as well.

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On my approach to Astoria, the sandy beaches turned to stone. I had no choice but to return to the streets (that, and the no vehicle access signs ). I was nearing the mouth of the Columbia River... where it empties into the Pacific.

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This would be my final approach... from Astoria, Oregon into southwestern Washington state.

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Crossing into Washington, I stayed either on the PCH or on roads that paralleled closer to the coast. On that route, I found the lighthouse at Cape Disappointment.

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And much to my delight, I found more beach highway! (cool)

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