by Mark Zoller | Feb 3, 2021 | Columbia River Gorge, Washington and Oregon fun and outdoor activities
Do you still like to climb high into the trees just as we did as kids? Well, one of my friends built an aerial park for people just like you and me. The idea of an aerial park was foreign to me but as Shane explained how it worked I knew it was something we had to go...
by Mark Zoller | Sep 9, 2020 | Columbia River Gorge, Washington and Oregon fun and outdoor activities, Whitewater Rafting
Corkscrew. Siwash. Waterspout. Zoller Zap. Grasshopper. Top Drop. Each great rapids of the White Salmon River and cleverly named. It was 1981 and none of the rapids had names that year dad opened up the first rafting company on the White Salmon river. Then comes a...
by Mark Zoller | Jun 23, 2020 | Columbia River Gorge, Washington and Oregon fun and outdoor activities, Hiking, wild flowers
Is a wilderness area to vast and far to enjoy? Is it there only for the extreme explorer? Fortunately a congressionally designated wilderness area can be either magnificently vast and extreme and sometimes easily accessible and breath-taking. Within just minutes of my...
by Mark Zoller | Jun 11, 2020 | Columbia River Gorge, Washington and Oregon fun and outdoor activities
Genius! Take an activity that your mother would never let you do as a kid and turn it into an adventure that promotes fun, competition and personal achievement. Not to mention, it might be one of the best ways ever to rid yourself of tension. It was over a year ago...
by Mark Zoller | Mar 23, 2020 | Columbia River Gorge, Washington and Oregon fun and outdoor activities
Just seven days ago I was out in the warm Spring sunshine doing some yard work. We even mowed the lawn. Then, it snowed! Since you can’t change the weather, you might as well embrace it and enjoy. That is exactly what I did. With a nice six inches of fresh powder on...
by Mark Zoller | Mar 21, 2020 | Columbia River Gorge, Washington and Oregon fun and outdoor activities, Fishing trips
High lakes in Washington. Just yesterday my son, Zach, was telling me about goal setting. Maybe the best goal setting I’ve ever heard. As he guided guests on 5-day whitewater rafting trips his goal would be to make sure each of the kids on the trip caught their very...
