Mount Hood

Columbia River and Mt. Hood
click photo to enlarge	I have now been to the Portland Area 6 or 8 times. This is the first time I was actually able to take a tour of the Bonneville Dam. It is really worth the stop. We also toured the fish hatchery on the same property which is very interesting.
click photo to enlarge	This picture is the fish ladder that fish take going up river. The have viewing windows inside that you can watch the fish swim by. They also count the fish and you can see a graph of that at this web link. In 2008 they had as many as 14,000 adult Chinook salmon per day climb this ladder.
click photo to enlarge	Growing up in Ohio we did not have mountains. Mt. Hood was the first mountain I ever saw on a business trip in about 1979. It was created by a volcano and looks very different from the mountains here in SCAL created by earthquake faults. The biggest difference is it is all by itself. There is not a long range of mountains with it like here in SCAL. The will ski all summer long on Mt. Hood. The lodge is Timberline Lodge built by the WPA from 1936 to 1938 using local timber and stone. Outside shots of the Lodge were used in the 1980 movie the shinning. The interior shots were not done at Timberline though.
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Columbia River and Mt. Hood