The Towering Multnomah
Of course, for any tourist, the mandatory stop at the Columbia River Gorge is Multnomah Falls, the jewel of the Gorge, towering over everything at 611 ft. high. Although widely advertised as being the 2nd highest year-round waterfall in the entire U.S. (or the 4th highest in the nation), it is nowhere near that. There are plenty of waterfalls higher than Multnomah. Nonetheless, it is magnificent. And it is a zoo. We came here in the evening around sunset and there were just far too many people around to take a decent photo of the waterfall. It was a bit of a bummer because the sunset light on the waterfall was really nice, but I didn’t even bother taking my tripod out of the car, and I only took photos of my family. Well, I did want to get a photo of Multnomah Falls, so I came here the next morning at sunrise. What a difference. There was no one else around at all, and I had the waterfall all to myself. It is wonderful to experience a great waterfall all to yourself with no one else around. One other couple did arrive a bit later and went up on the bridge and into my photo, but I did manage to get in a couple shots before they arrived. This is a high resolution 25 mega-pixel stitched image.
On a somewhat related note, I just finished reading a book called “The Shack” by William Young. It is very popular in Christian circles right now, and also controversial because it has some theological problems with it. I am not going to get into that. The reason I am bringing it up, though, is because the book is really centered around a waterfall, Multnomah Falls to be exact (I know I am stretching that to the utmost extreme). The book talks about the legend of Multnomah Falls, where a young princess of the Multnomah people sacrificed herself by jumping off the cliff here and thus saving her people and lover from a horrible disease. You can read the entire legend here. The legend really has many striking similarities to the very real sacrifice that Jesus made for all of us, when He died on the cross to save us all from eternal death.
Well, that is probably enough rambling for today. Have a good one.
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