End of October Ride

Photos shot on a ride from Spokane, WA to Vancouver, WA the last weekend of October, 2003. It was an unseasonably warm October on the "dry side", with very little rain.

The photos were shot with a Minolta Dimage-X 2 megapixel digital camera, then cropped and resized.

A switchback on the one-lane road down the Little Klickitat canyon, in south central Washington. This is WA Hwy 142, a favorite of motorcyclists and sports car enthusiasts.

The Columbia river, looking upstream towards The Dalles, OR. This shot was taken from the rest stop on the Washington side, just a mile from where 142 meets Hwy 14 (which follows the Columbia down to Vancouver).

A shot of the "Stonehenge" war memorial -- a replica of the real Stonehenge built upon a bluff on the north shore of the Columbia river, just east of US Hwy 97. Built by Sam Hill as a memorial to the Klickitat county soldiers who died in WW-I. Sam Hill, among other accomplishments, built the first paved roads in Washington, and spearheaded efforts to build the International Peace Arch at the US/Canadian border just south of Vancouver, B.C.

The view downriver along the Columbia from Stonehenge. Biggs Junction, OR is on the south end of the bridge. The peak in the distance is Mt. Hood, OR (11,234').