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Friday Sep 17th |
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 Columbia Gorge Hotel |
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 View of Washington across the Columbia River (state border) |
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| Driving from Hood River and Mt. Hood to Bend, Oregon. Lush green and waterfalls to desert. |
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 Sign in restaurant?? |
 Diamond Lake Lodge |
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 Our accommodations Friday night |
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 Driving from Diamond Lake Lodge.... |
 to Crater Lake. First snowfall of the season. |
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 The desert covered in a blanket of snow |
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 More and more snow as we drove closer to Crater Lake. After 5 or 6 miles we turned around. |
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 5 mph was more like what we were driving, nowhere near the speed limit of 55 mph! |
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 Lower part of Watson Falls |
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 Extrememly clear water at Clearwater Falls |
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 Ice chunk that fell from underneath the car - after having driven through the snow at Crater Lake. |
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 A patch of blue sky -- finally! |
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 Colliding rivers |
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 Yaquina Head Lighthouse from our hotel balcony |
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 Driving to Yacquina Head Lighthouse |
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 Whale watching -- can you see 'em?? |
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 Mo's - famous Oregon Coast restaurant |
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 Our gracious hostess for the first and last nights of our trip, Peggy Lee (Tom too, but he was unavailable for pictures). |