Slide Show: Choose Your Own Adventure
ALL ABOARD Iron horses once rode the rails along the Klickitat Trail. Now it’s all yours.
Photography by Mark Gamba
GOING UP? Yes, it’s steep. But the view from Saddle Mountain’s summit in the Coast Range is well worth the burn.
Photography by Adam Schneider
HYDRO POWER Feel the force of South Falls in Silver Falls State Park on a walk behind the 177-foot cascade.
Photography by Mark Gamba
WILD RIDE Fat tires meet a field of flowers on the Klickitat Trail in the Columbia River Gorge.
Photography by The Mud Blog
BLOWN AWAY Get an up-close look at Mount St Helens’s blast zone on the Ape Canyon Trail.
Photography by Mark Gamba
PERFECT PEDDLE Between its sun-dappled paths and smooth riding, Champoeg State Heritage Area has it all.
Photography by Mark Gamba
WATER WORLD Find yourself, or at least a little bit of R&R, at Mount Hood’s Lost Lake.
Photography by Scott Weber
SPLASH DOWN With names like Slingshot and Powerhouse, the Clackamas River’s rapids always deliver a rush.
Photography by Mark Gamba
WIDE OPEN You’ll find plenty of room on the Columbia River at Ridgefield National Wildlife Refuge.
Photography by Kari Kropf
MOUNTAIN HIGH Elevate your summer by climbing at Washington’s Horsethief Butte, where the views and the crags are sublime.
Photography by Mark Gamba
