Oregon - July 13-20, 2004
These pictures were taken on a trip to Portland, Oregon, to give a
talk at the SIAM Annual Meeting, with a little extra time to see some
other things out that way. They were taken with my Olympus C730 Ultra
Zoom digital camera. Most images are shown at a resolution of
640x480, but are available in full 2048x1536 size by clicking on the
links after the captions.
Tuesday, July 13, 2004
Late afternoon and evening travel, highlighted by a flight taking off
in a thunderstorm from CVG.
Wednesday, July 14, 2004
There are some pictures on the road in the morning headed to the
conference [5 Pictures]. After the
conference, there are more pictures from the road [3 Pictures] on the way to see the
Japanese Gardens [29 Pictures] and Rose
Gardens [6 Pictures] at Washington Park in
Portland, and then a few more pictures from the road on the way back
to the hotel [8 Pictures].
Thursday, July 15, 2004
Another conference day, mainly, but there are a few pictures on the
road [8 Pictures] and a lot of pictures
from the Portland Beavers game in the evening [43 Pictures].
Friday, July 16, 2004
After working in the morning, I drove and walked around Portland a
bit, mainly to look for good view of Mount Hood, but ended up mostly
with pictures of the riverfront [18
Pictures]. After another conference session, there was time for a
short ride up the Columbia River east of Portland [6 Pictures]. Lots of worthwhile stops
and views from the road: Chanticleer Point [6 Pictures], the Vista House [6 Pictures], Latourell Falls [11 Pictures], Bridal Veil [Picture], Multnomah Falls [25 Pictures], and Horsetail Falls [7 Pictures]. From there, it was back to
Portland to pick up Cathy, and on north to Kelso, Washington for the
night [12 Pictures].
Saturday, July 17, 2004
Time for a quick visit to Mt. St. Helens in the
morning, pictures are
from the ride up [8 Pictures], from
Johnston Ridge [29 Pictures], and a
few spots on the way back [30
Pictures]. There wasn't enough time to make more stops, but we
did get to the big one. Then back to Kelso to meet up with Andrew for
the rest of the trip, and back down to Oregon [15 Pictures]. After that, we drove out
the Columbia River Gorge, stopping at Wahkeena Falls [15 Pictures], where we also saw Multnomah
Falls again [7 Pictures]. We stopped
for dinner in Hood River, which had some excellent views of Mt. Adams
[2 Pictures]. After that, it was up the
Mount Hood Highway, with plenty of spectacular views of several
volcanoes [12 Pictures] and on into Bend,
Oregon, for the night [16 Pictures].
Sunday, July 18, 2004
Another volcano day. First up, some views on the way out of Bend of
several volcanoes [4 Pictures]. We made a
few stops in the Newberry National Volcanic
Monument: Lava Butte [28
Pictures],
the Molten Land trail
through the lava flow [30 Pictures],
drove the side road into the caldera [5
Pictures], drove up a narrow, winding, gravel road to Paulina Peak
[21 Pictures], walked the Big
Obsidian Flow trail [17 Pictures], and
got lunch at Paulina Lake [6
Pictures]. Then it was down US 97 [8
Pictures] toward Crater Lake. We came in
at the north entrance [Picture]
and took the whole Rim Road,
with many pictures throughout: the Pumice Desert [8 Pictures], our first
pass along the west side of the rim road [13 Pictures], Vidae Falls [3 Pictures], and on around the rest of the
rim [35 Pictures]. Then it was
on to Grants Pass, Oregon, for the night [2
Pictures].
Monday, July 19, 2004
We decided to start the ride back to Portland by going the wrong way
for a little while with a trip down US 199, the Redwood Highway, into
northern California [18 Pictures]. The
main attraction down there was the northernmost redwood grove in the
Redwood National and State Parks [26
Pictures]. Then it was north on US 101 along the Pacific in
California [14 Pictures], and back into
Oregon for a long ride up the coast [53
Pictures]. We made a stop at the somewhat touristy Sea Lion Cave
[25 Pictures], then continued up the
coast [23 Pictures] to Newport [4 Pictures], then back across to I-5 to
get to Portland [6 Pictures], later than
expected but with a lot of good sightseeing packed into just a few days.
Tuesday, July 20, 2004
Travel day...the early morning flight out of Portland meant excellent
views of the volcanoes poking up over the low cloud deck. People got
great views of St. Helens, Adams, and Rainier out the left side of the
plane, and my side got the Oregon volcanoes [9 Pictures]. The only other thing that
seemed worthy of a picture from the air were some clouds in the east,
probably over western New York [2
Pictures].
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