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Etusivu 17
Luontipäivä / 2009 / Viikko 13 / Sunnuntai
Winter rains gather making their way downhill and gathering to cascade off cliffs along the trail during the wet season. This is just at the edge of the trail on Horsetail Creek Trail.
When the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) built these trails in the gorge, concrete signs were added. Sometimes they are hard to see because moss and ferns are growing over the signs. This sign is about 50 feet from the trailhead near Horsetail Falls.
Water cascades down cliffs in several places along the trail during the wet season. This is just past a switchback on the west side of Oneonta Creek.
Water cascades down cliffs in several places along the trail during the wet season. This is just at the edge of the trail on Horsetail Creek Trail.
Walking under the overhanging cliff at Ponytail Falls on Horsetail Creek in the Columbia River Gorge.
Tori, Tom, Teresa, Steve, Drew, Bree, and Zach standing under the overhanging cliff at Ponytail Falls on Horsetail Creek in the Columbia River Gorge.
This is a 60 foot waterfall on Oneonta Creek on Horsetail Creek Trail, just above the steel and wood bridge over Oneonta Creek. Oneonta Falls is just downstream from this waterfall.
The Bridge over Oneonta Creek is about 30 feet above the stream and has an open-slat deck. You can look down right through the bridge and see the creek rushing beneath you.
Stair-step Moss (Latin name: Hylocomium splendens) is a green feathery moss seen growing along the Oneonta Trail in the Columbia River Gorge.
Ponytail Falls waterfall is about 110 feet high and is on Horsetail Creek in the Columbia River Gorge. This is classified as a horsetail waterfall.
Pixie Cup Lichen (Latin name: Cladonia chlorophaea) near Triple Falls, Oregon.
Looking down at Oneonta Gorge from Oneonta Trail. Oneonta Gorge is a narrow slot-canyon that ends at a waterfall. The vertical band of water in the photo is about 150 feet below the trail and it is flowing towards the top of the picture. I-84 is at the to
Licorice fern (Latin name: Polypodium glycyrrhizais) growing along Horsetail Creek Trail. Licorice fern is named because of the sweet, licorice-flavored rhizomes. Maybe early spring isn't the season to eat this because It didn't taste good.
Here is a typical view of the flat part of Horsetail Falls trail to Triple Falls. The trail goes mostly along hillsides in the gorge and creek valleys.
Frog Pelt lichen (Latin name: Peltigera neopolydactyla) near Triple Falls in the Columbia River Gorge.