When I rode the full length of the Trail on a Tuesday morning last week, I was surprised to see so much vegetation had come back after the fire on the west end. I will be curious to see which scorched trees may survive. The Locust Grove was hit hard. I also enjoyed a few fistfuls of ripe blackberries on the far east end beyond Riverfront Park.

A cyclist climbs one of the many curves in Hood River Road, southwest of Mosier, near the east access to the Mark Hatfield Twin Tunnels trailh…

A section of the Historic Columbia River Highway was closed last week for rockfall scaling above Oneonta Tunnel, the first step towards recons…