April 27, 2008
Eagle Creek
Category: Columbia River GorgeTags: Eagle Creek, waterfalls, wildflowers
Location: Eagle Creek Trail, Columbia River Gorge, Oregon
Distance: 7.6 miles round-trip (starting at the first parking lot)
It was a beautiful day in the 60s and the wildflowers were in bloom, so this was a great place to be for the day. Quite a bit of the hike is on a high cliff with shear drop-offs, sometimes with cables to hold onto. We saw Lower Punchbowl Falls, Punchbowl Falls, and Loowit Falls and we made it to High Bridge. The forests are mixed conifers and the landscape varies quite a bit: along the creek, in dense forests with moss hanging from trees, open meadows on vertical hillsides, humongous rock slides, narrow slot canyons, more forest, more open cliff-sides with lots of grottos above dripping water on you as you go by… definitely a great hike that we’ll do again.
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