Hiking to Tunnel Falls

Yes, it's been a long time since I updated this blog, and yes many things have changed in my world. I'll get to all that shortly. I now live in beautiful Hood River, Oregon and have an amazing environment right outside my door.

Yesterday April and I, along with some new friends, hiked to the Eagle Creek trail to Tunnel Falls. The hike was amazing! We've done the hike to Punchbowl Falls twice before, but the recent heavy rains made everything more interesting. The run-off in the gorge created countless new waterfalls some of which were easily over 300 feet.

Here's April next to Tunnel Falls.

Tunnel Falls is a little over 200 feet high. It's called Tunnel Falls because the trail actually goes through a man made tunnel directly behind them. If you click the photo you'll see April as she stands on the trail to the right of the thundering water. The pathway is only 2-3 feet wide a some points and approximately 100 feet from the cold pool below.

We were happy to see some Coho Salmon in the creek as well. They were finishing up their spawning run and were getting ready to die. It wouldn't of been to difficult to catch them by hand. I couldn't believe how many there were or how big, some were huge!

That's it for now. More pics and updates to come!