[Leica] First day of our trip

[Aram Langhans]

We started our trip with a visit to the Dalles Mountain Ranch in the 
Columbia Hills Historic SP on the Washington side of the Columbia 
Gorge.  It was our first visit there and thought this was not a great 
flower year, I was impressed.  It was a dreary day, but Mt. Hood was 
still visible in the distance across the Columbia.  Here are some shots 
from that part of our trip.

Dalles Mt Ranch-1354.jpg | Aram Langhans | Flickr 
<https://www.flickr.com/photos/24330215@N06/55260058950/in/album-72177720333573638/lightbox/>

Dalles Mt Ranch-1356.jpg | Aram Langhans | Flickr 
<https://www.flickr.com/photos/24330215@N06/55260059275/in/album-72177720333573638/lightbox/>

We hiked a portion of the loop trail, as much as our knees would allow 
and time permitted, as our destination for the first night was Silver 
Falls State Park in Oregon that was still 3 hours away.

The Balsam Root were nice, if not as abundant as I have seen in other's 
photos from past years.

Dalles Mt Ranch-1357.jpg | Aram Langhans | Flickr 
<https://www.flickr.com/photos/24330215@N06/55258761082/in/album-72177720333573638/lightbox/>

Dalles Mt Ranch-1380.jpg | Aram Langhans | Flickr 
<https://www.flickr.com/photos/24330215@N06/55260059575/in/album-72177720333573638/lightbox/>

We also walked around the historic ranch a bit.

Dalles Mt Ranch-1396.jpg | Aram Langhans | Flickr 
<https://www.flickr.com/photos/24330215@N06/55260059720/in/album-72177720333573638/lightbox/>

Comments welcome.

Aram


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Aram Langhans
(Semi) Retired Science Teacher
& Unemployed photographer
  
“The Human Genome Project has proved Darwin more right than Darwin himself would ever have dared dream.”   James D. Watson