Of the big rivers that flow from the rainy western slopes of the Oregon Cascades, the Molalla might be the most abused by a century of heavy logging, thanks to private timber holdings that span much of the watershed. Yet, in the midst of nearly continuous clearcuts and logging spur roads a ribbon of beautiful…

Winter snow means the annual closure of Lolo Pass Road, and the beginning of a very quiet season on the rugged northwest side of Mount Hood. It’s a time of stunning beauty, when the colorful cliffs and spires familiar to summer hikers are blanketed in deep snow and ice. This image was captured in early…

When the days get shorter each winter, and the sun is low on the southern horizon, thick mountain fog can seemingly appear out of nowhere as evening approaches on cold, clear days. Though invisible to our eye, the clear winter air is usually dense with water vapor barely held in suspension by the sun’s rays.…

Photographers from around the world come here to capture this classic Columbia River Gorge landscape during the spectacular bloom season in April and early May, when yellow Balsamroot and blue Lupine blanket the wide, windswept meadows.  Much of the Rowena Crest landscape was rescued from private development in the late 1970s and 1980s as the…

Two weeks of unusually heavy rain and mild temperatures erased much of the early snowpack on Mount Hood in mid-December of 2026, turning mountain streams and the rivers they feed into torrents. This was the scene in the sagebrush country east of the mountain at White River Falls, just one day after flood levels had…