Columbia River Gorge Activities
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Tree-Top Adventures
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...
White Salmon River – How’d it get its name?
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...
A Wilderness Not So Distant
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...
Throwing Sharp Objects
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...