Brian Eating Chicken And A Bisquit

Yummo! Chicken and a Bisquit

Center Tent Ipod Video Display Device

The CTIVDD in all of its glory, as used at Eagle Creek.

The Trail

Just another shot of the trail heading back.

Coral Mushrooms

Coral Mushrooms abound on the trail. You can eat them, we didn't.

Basalt

Supposedly some Italian engineers blasted this trail with dynamite around the same time they were building the now historic Columbia gorge highway. You can tell the trail in some places is definitely man made.

Tunnel Falls

Go through tunnel falls with this video tour!

The Size Thing Again

I really liked Brians size and nature thing. Can you find Brian in this picture.

Light Through the Trees

Daylight doesn't last long during the winter months in steep gorges like the one that Eagle Creek flows down. However, in the morning hours, the sun back lights the trees and creates a wonderful effect. As if the moss on the branches are the trees ornaments and the sun is the tinsel.

Fall here, Fall There, Fall Everywhere.

One trail book called the Eagle Creek hike, "embarrassing." I now know why. Say a friend from North Carolina or someplace talks about a beautiful hike you can do where you walk through the woods for about 5 miles and there is this beautiful falls....... Well, if you have hiked Eagle Creek, you would almost be embarrassed to mention that you can hike 7 miles and see over two dozen falls, and not only that walk behind one. Now that's just bragging. Instead, you would keep your mouth shut and just say, "That's great," while in the back of your mind you will be thinking, "you 'aint' seen nothin."

Enjoy this blog, authored by both myself and my backcountry partner Brian as we tell some stories and share in the nature of Oregon's most popular and spectacular hike.

Sizing things up...

Our recent excursion on the Eagle Creek trail has reminded me of one of the "biggest" reasons I enjoy backpacking....it reminds me how truly small we really are. It seems like everything thing that surrounds us most of the day is scaled down to human size...our cars, offices, convenience stores... unless we jump on a cruise ship, or visit a skyscraper, we are pretty much living in a tailor made world.

Nature is one thing that can really put our true size in the world in perspective. For me it is awe inspiring, humbling, exciting...and some times scary. Capturing this feeling in a picture is almost impossible...but here are a few that attempt it, there is a person in each picture.

The first shot is Jake by Tunnel Falls, off of Eagle creek trail. The rest; Prairie Creek Redwoods, The Hoh river valley, and Sawtooth ridge.