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| Smith Rock State Park |
We left very smokey Bend and headed north, stopping for a picnic lunch at Smith Rock. It's a favourite place for climbers, and we watched several, through the binoculors, inching their way up the rock face. It's a hot and dry landscape, and anyone with livestock or crops, has to irrigate their fields. We're amazed by all the natural lava rock - at home we had to buy it in bags for the paths in the front yard!
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| Mt.Hood from the window of Timberline Lodge |
We drove north again, through the dry Warm Springs area, and as we got closer to Mt. Hood, the landscape changed completely, to green forest and some maple trees changing colour. We drove up to Timberline Lodge, built in 1937, and had fun exploring the amazing interior, with its' huge beams, stone, old windows and enormous fireplaces. We played some ping-pong on a wooden table, and admired the views of the glaciers.
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