Mt. Hood | Visit Portland

February 22, 2020February 22, 2020

Kelly again and a new museum

Final got a break from all of the rain we have been having and had a chance to get out. I really need to do a post on the 10 reasons not to visit Portland in the winter and rain would be right at the top of the list. But when it is nice here it is really nice. With some dry and some sun I went back to Kelly Point Park. This is the place to see just what a busy seaport the Portland area is, even though we are a hundred miles from the ocean. The view of Mt. Hood and Columbia River with all of the ocean going ships and river barges is always striking.

I also got to Washington County Museum that they just renamed Five Oaks. I have never been here before but saw that they had displays on the native tribe and on logging. I am working on my Theme Tours and trying to find place for folks to go as part of those tours. It turned out to be very disappointing. Biggest issue is that these exhibits are just temporary and going away in a couple of months. The quality of both exhibits was poor and they need to check there facts as they were using old information that we now know is wrong. So I can’t recommend this place. When White man came to this area we did a very good job of wiping out the indigenous population so it is hard to find places for people to go to to learn about them.

October 21, 2019October 21, 2019

Mt. Hood Tour

I went out with some friends and did one variation of my Mt. Hood tour. The weather forecast was for some and some snow. So that was a good reason for not going on a long hike and being wet all day. This tour allows for seeing some great places, in the fall, with wet weather and not get soaked and have fun. Our route was to see Little ZigZag Falls, then drive up into the snow to Timberline Lodge, see Little Crater Lake and finish at the historic Clackamas Ranger Station. So a couple of short walks to see a couple of the best nature spots around Hood, get a little history in and some good drinks and food at Timberline Lodge.

October 21, 2018October 22, 2018

Mt. Hood Tour Development

Lori and I head up to Mt. Hood to explore a tour route for my visit Portland site. I need to go back and check to see what was still there and what would still work for a self guide tour. We also came across some new places and Lori pointed out some details that I need to add. We had great weather and still some good fall color.

Our first stop was at Skibowl. This was not planned but we saw they were almost done with at new trailhead parking lot and wanted to see if we could take a look. They had it fence off so we check out Skibowl instead.

It is between season so everything was close.

We found they had add a lot to their summer adventure park. It was spendy but they had over 20 activities to do.

After a long dry summer only a few small glaciers still hanging on with snow.

They had the tunnel up on the entry and are ready for the snow.

As you enter a large sign board directs where to go.

The entry level has a small museum including an example of how the original room would have looked.

The build has many large forged pieces.

At tile mosaic around the drinking fountain.

Not time yet for fires but the pumpkins were in place.

Looking down from the Rams Head bar to the main lodge.

We decide to try the brunch at the Cascade Dinning Room.

It was busy but we got in with just a 15 min. wait.

This contraption is a good symbol of the brunch. Look like it had great possibilities but turned out disappointing. With this contraption you turned that handle but nothing happened no help to make it work.

There was a limited selection and was even more limited with several items being out.

There was still enough to get filled up but not very good quality. Don’t plan on eating brunch here for the food but for being in a historic building. Our server was not not very good either.