14.11 Oregon: Tunnel Falls near Hood River
Tunnel Falls, some six miles from the trailhead, at full blast. Through the tunnel, on the ledge. Jenni develops tunnel vision. We left Mount Rainier a while ago and headed, via a stopover with Gavin, to Sequim on the Olympic Peninsula. On Sunday, we had to get the car facing southwards as we began a slow journey to San Diego. However, before reaching our ultimate destination, in this world anyway, we stopped off in Oregon again to do some work on hiking. We had undertaken a few hikes in the tree-filled state before our trip to Europe. Our editor wanted to know why we asked those big fellows to help lift the car and turn it to face south. “Why didn’t you drive it around in the usual way…like a normal person?” “Sure, we could have done that. However, it would have lacked the dramatic impact commensurate with turning to face San Diego,” we answered. She may have been wearing sunglasses but that did not hide the eye-roll. She cannot fool us as easily as she did in the p...