randomRamblings

I am a HUGE fan of Cormac McCarthy’s The Road. I couldn’t put it down. I don’t know why, but next to revenge movies, my favorites are “end of the world”, “last person on earth” type films. So this story was right up my alley. The whole time reading it, I was thinking that this would make a perfect movie. Not too long afterwards, I found out that it was being made and even partially filmed in this general area!(Mt St. Helens) John Hillcoat(The Proposition) is the director and stars Viggo Mortensen and Charlize Theron. A few stills have been released over at USAToday. Head over there to check them out. Its looking great so far.

Last weekend was amazing. Saturday it was almost 80 degrees! Sunday wasn’t that warm, but it was still super nice. Saturday we drove up the Columbia River. We went over the Bridge of the gods and kept driving until we came to the Maryhill Museum area in Washington. It’s a great spot and I highly recommend. Wonderful views of the river and Mt Jefferson back in Oregon. A little further up the road is a Stonehenge replica that is dedicated to World War One soldiers that were from that area. On the way back we stopped at Beacon Rock. We made the hike up and it was pretty nice, but there was ALOT of people up there and we couldn’t really stop and enjoy the view. Oh well.————————————————

Sunday we drove south to the Silver Falls Forest Area and did a 5 mile hike. The waterfalls were awesome. Alot of water is rushing down right now, because of the snow melt. Enjoy the Pics!

Well, the area of Mt. Saint Helens anyway. Today we decided to go into Washington again even with the promise of rain. Couldn’t stay inside another saturday. We went up as far as we could go. Still alot of snow up there even in April. There was a road off to the left and it went down a ways to Coldwater Lake. This was formed after the 1989 eruption! Coldwater creek was clogged with landslide and debri, thus forming Coldwater Lake. It was absolutely beautiful and peaceful. Not a soul was there but us. You can still see charred tree stumps and ashy grey mud.