Curious Gorge Scott Cook

It's official: Kiwis are living in denial

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Don't Forget the Columbia River Gorge | Field Journal | OPB Blogs

Ask a geologist and they’ll tell you about lava flows and the Lake Missoula Flood . Ask a native and they might tell you about the now submerged Celilo Falls , and about how their ancestors used to snag salmon in willow nets. An engineer will pipe right up about the Bonneville Dam . A fisherman might recall the couch-sized sturgeon that yanked his shoulder out-of-socket, and a biologist might shake her head explaining the new habits of the sea lion. And if you talked to all of those people, you’d likely discover more people and more stories about what this place means to them.

The Gorge truly lives up to the Forest Service’s billing as “The Land of Many Uses.” And in the spring, a wonderful way to experience it is on a Sunday drive through the Columbia River Highway.

Built by the National Park Service in 1922, it’s designed to leave destinations behind. It unwinds through an ancient forest of fir and pine. Scores of waterfalls leap into view over the mossy cliffs, stone bridges carry you across swift creeks, and turnouts urge you to slow down, or pull over and enjoy the view.

It’s a pleasure to imagine the pre-dam days when the Columbia was a braid of tangled river channels, but you don’t need to imagine the past to see the beauty of today.

It does help, however, to get out of your car.

A classic spring time hike begins at Oregon’s most visited site – Multnomah Fall s. To hike from there to Wahkeena Falls is a 5-mile loop that visits ten waterfalls, not a single dribbler within the group, but Multnomah is the most impressive. Something about the ease of access makes it easy to overlook, but to stand beneath an airborne river, to feel the spray of the mist, the roar of the wind, and to marvel at the perfect stone bridge, makes me think the same thing everytime I visit, “I should come out here more often.

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