We had huge amounts of rain, record rain. We had snow and major ice storms and lots of freezing rain. Most of the winter it was unpleasant to be outside.
This chart is from
Mark Nelson, local weatherman. His weather blog is excellent and has lots of great information on our horrible winter.
The Columbia Gorge took such a beating. I've never seen damage like this in all my years here. They even closed the Historic Columbia Gorge highway from mud slides.
Some intrepid hikers did visit the Columbia Gorge and posted photos of the conditions. The links are to trip reports on Oregon Hikers.
The snow and ice and mudslides and fallen trees make a mess of the trail.
The freezing rain coats everything again and again, taking down trees and branches and making beautiful treacherous sculptures.
And by mid February the trails look like this.
2 comments:
I know it was miserable but that photo of ice on the handrail is super cool!
You had more winter weather than we did.
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