Latourell Falls Spring Hike

 Our third hike today was the Latourell Falls hike. Both the lower (224 ft) and upper falls (120 ft) are spectacular! This is a 2.3 mile loop hike with 540 ft of elevation gain.
The trail is off of I-84, west of Multnomah Falls.

 View of Lower Latourell Falls from the parking lot.

Lower Latourell Falls seen from the lower loop trail.

 We choose to go up the left side of the loop trail (south side), this gives you glimpses of Lower Latourell Falls as the trail climbs uphill.

 another view of Lower Latourell Falls

 nearing the top of the trail and our first view of Upper Latourell Falls

 nearing Upper Latourell Falls

 View of Upper Latourell Falls from the side

 Panorama view from behind Upper Latourell Falls

 getting close to the falls

The west side of the loop trail has a spur at the top of Lower Latourell Falls 

where you can look out across the Coloumbia River Gorge:

This trail goes under an interesting tree.

We saw lots of monkshood in bloom along the trail.

Some of the other wildflowers we saw on this trail today:

Elowah Falls Spring Hike

Our second hike today was to Elowah Falls (213 ft) a 1.6 mile hike with a couple hundred feet of gain/loss. This can be a longer hike, including Upper McCord Creek Falls for a 3.4 mile hike with 660 ft of elevation gain. This hike is off of I-84 just east of Multnomah Falls.

 The trail starts with a gentle up grade in the woods.

 Then descends down in a series of switchbacks to McCord Creek.

 View of Elowah Falls

Panorama looking toward the falls

Panorama looking back down the trail and McCord creek

 We saw lots of bleeding hearts and other wildflowers along the trail

and some Calypso Orchids.

Wahclella Falls Spring Hike

We wanted to hit some short waterfall hikes that we hadn't done before our way home.  Wahclella Falls (127 ft) is one that was recommended to us.  It is off of I-84 near Bonneville Dam.

 This is a 1.8 mile hike with only 350 ft of elevation gain. The hike starts in the woods with a gentle upgrade following Tanner Creek.

 The trail soon passes Munra Falls (68 ft).


















There were lots of wildflowers along the river trail.

 After a while, the trail begins to ascend.


















At 0.7 miles, the trail splits into a loop going pass the falls. I recommend taking the lower trail to the right first, this will allow you to walk with the falls in view in front of you.

I like the small cascades in the creek.

 View of Wahclella Falls up stream.


















Shortly before the falls, the trail goes under a large rocky ledge.

 Wahclella Falls

 Panorama from the bridge looking toward Wahclella Falls

 Panorama from the bridge looking back down the trail and Tanner Creek

 Some of the wildflowers we saw on the hike today:

Rodney Falls on Hamilton Mountain Spring Hike

 Our third hike of today was to revisit Rodney Falls and the Pool of Winds on Hamilton Mountain, a 2.5 mile round trip hike with 500 - 600 feet of elevation gain.
We did the hike to the top of Hamilton Mountian 2 years ago, if interested you can read about that trip here.
 This is a nice hike in the woods.

 The Pool of Winds is the upper portion of Rodney Falls. We saw some dippers flying around this pool.

 Rodney Falls as seen from the bridge below the Pool of Winds.

Rodney Falls seen from below the bridge.

Some of the wildflowers seen on this hike today: