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"Only the cord pants, thick sweater and sturdy boots suggested his quasi-civilian status."

The Janeway Tour begins, by necessity, in Starbucks.

Chakotay indulges in Tea, Earl Grey, Hot.

The white blob in the background is a sheep... honest.

Crown Point; note the lingering snow that can be seen.

Crown Point

Looking back, he read "Vista House" from the sign on the curious octagonal building. "It's over 400 years old."

I have no idea what the dome is for, but you can see it from the road below.

A picture with none of the fencing and only a little barbed wire... *g*

Jade and the dolls

A cone, wisely caged.

"Dad brought us here one summer to try and get me interested in the great outdoors."

Kathryn Janeway stood at the lookout point and gazed across the river. In front of her the South Cascade mountains disappeared into the distance. The trees were turning and the far bank was a shimmering gradation of reds, russets and golds.

They passed a number of small streams, cascading down the side of the gorge.

Kathryn stopped the vehicle in front of a derelict house.

"I'd forgotten that house. It was already abandoned when we were here with Dad. One night Phoebe and I made up a whole story about it. We called it the O'Driscoll place."

Janeway and Chakotay pause on a memorial.

Janeway and Chakotay rest on the way to Latourell Fall.

Leafs!

"At the risk of breaking the mood, my butt is getting damp." He pulled a face.

Above them the water from a small stream was splashing over the rocky face to refill the basin.

As waterfalls went, it was not the highest, or the widest one he had ever seen.

Climbing...

...and sliding back! *g*

We stopped for lunch. *g*

A short walk brought them to the base of a two-tier waterfall, set back in a large cleft in the side of the valley. Water cascaded over the edge of a sheer drop, here and there diverting around rocky outcrops, to land in a pool, on a shelf halfway up the cliff face.

Me and the dolls on the way to Multnomah Fall.

Janeway and Chakotay have a quick break.

"Come on. Watch out for poison oak."

Jade, looking cold and wet.

Here and there shafts of light penetrated the gloom, reflecting off wet surfaces.

Kathryn and Chakotay by the Fall.

"They stabilised the walls of the cliff. Phoebe used to swim in the pool. I used to like getting behind the water though. You could see rainbows through it."

On the path back down.

Train!

There she goes!

"Did you mention something about a picnic?"

Jade joins Kathryn and Chakotay for their picnic.