All these years living in Oregon, yet we've never really spent much time exploring the Washington side of the Columbia Gorge. Click here for photos from our long weekend in White Salmon. We toured Bonneville Dam (pictured above); hiked Natural Bridges, Coyote Wall and Catherine Creek; visited the Maryhill Art Museum, its replica of Stonehenge (pictured below) and a nearby winery called Waving Tree; and stumbled across Schreiner Farm, a cattle ranch near Lyle that doubles as a drive-through exotic animal park.
We ended our trip in Hood River and hiked the Mosier Plateau Trail. From either side of the river, the views were great, though much of the weekend was unseasonably cool and cloudy, making Mt. Hood and Mt. Adams a bit hard to spot.
Click here to see what the kids have been up to and how everyone celebrated the summer solstice - Jake and Elise took in a solstice parade in Minneapolis, Drew and Grace checked out the campus of Southern Oregon University in Ashland where they'll attend nursing school this Fall, and Emily and Coleman attended a family reunion in Trinity County, California.
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