Saker att göra i Östra Oregon

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Next Stop on the Eastern Oregon Swing is Leslie Gulch. A 20 mile dirt road leads past fantastic basalt rock formations terminating at the Owyhee River. There is a small but nice primitive campground (no water or electricity) with covered picnic tables and boat ramp access to the Owyhee river.
Next Stop on the Eastern Oregon Swing is Leslie Gulch. A 20 mile dirt road leads past fantastic basalt rock formations terminating at the Owyhee River. There is a small but nice primitive campground (no water or electricity) with covered picnic tables and boat ramp access to the Owyhee river.
You may have to stop for the occasional cattle drive on US Highway 395 in Eastern Oregon.  We were one of only two cars waiting patiently as we admired the scenery of this beautiful herd being ushered across by real deal cowboys and their herding dogs.  Yep, this may be the life for me.
The mountains of the Oregon Coast Range as seen from the eastern slope of Elk Mountain. None of these mountains tops off at much over 3000 feet (900 meters), but don't be fooled by that.  Elk Mountain is one of the toughest short climbs (we're talking "hikes" here), that you'll ever find.  And, if you're not a stickler about remaining on your feet the entire trail, you'll have a grand old time.
Here in the Great Northwest, those of us to take to the great outdoors generally have one destination, the Cascade Mountain range that runs pretty much through the center of Oregon and Washington going North/South.  There is the Olympic Range to the north and west, the Blue Mountains to the East and Steens Mountain at the edge of the desert near Nevada.  In fact, there are mountains all over the place, but those of us who hike and climb have essentially become snobs for the soaring peaks of the high Cascades.  So much so that when someone tells us about a place called the “Coastal Range” sitting on the eastern rim of Oregon’s beaches,  with its peaks topping out at a mere three thousand feet, we politely smile, and give off a glow of arch and patronizing wisdom.  Three thousand feet is like a day in the park; a game of “Shoots and Ladders.” We’d hardly start breathing heavily before the whole thing was over and we were packing up the car.
 
Well, folks, I am here to tell you; that kind of pride serves you well until you find yourself in the unenviable task of having to swallow it.  This weekend my hiking partner and I took to the road to make what we thought would a pleasant little jaunt up a version of “Candyland” called Elk Mountain.  What we “thought” could not have been further from the truth.  Meter for meter and foot for foot, it is one of the hardest climbs we have ever done.  Most of the first two miles is on no less than a 40% grade, some of it steeper, and I found myself clambering and clawing that ascension almost as often as hiking it.  The next two miles start with a near vertical drop of almost 60 feet (what the hiking books call a scramble), in which I was forced to use a part of my body not generally applied to locomotion just to keep my arrangement with the law of gravity at an even status quo.  At a certain point, the trail forks indecipherably, and the two of us found ourselves on the wrong tine of that fork as we watched the path erase almost like magic in front of us.   We took our life into our hands (frequently along with handfuls of wild rosebush thorns) by pushing up a seventy-five foot embankment to get enough elevation to see where we had gone wrong.  By grace or by fortune, that dropped us right back on the trail, at which point, the mountain seemed to believe that we had been taught our lesson.  There were more deep vertical scrambles (always down, why down?) and belly scraping, heart-pounding ascensions, but nothing of the kind we had already seen.
 
The last 4 miles bound and bounce down an old logging road, depositing you back at the place where you started, like Dorothy waking up in her bedroom; sad with newfound wisdom and heart aching with wonder.
 
It was painful, it was dangerous, and I tell you, my friends, I had a blast.
 
Beyond the sheer physical exertion, there are simply things to see that will make you marvel and gasp and keep you in a state where you feel as if you have permanently dropped your jaw.
 
And if this hyperbolic rant didn’t convince you to try it for yourself, maybe some of discoveries I post in the near future will.
 
If you’re up to the challenge, and don’t mind a little dirt, I highly recommend it.

Att göra i Östra Oregon

Låt Expedia hjälpa dig hitta de bästa upplevelserna som Östra Oregon och Oregon har att erbjuda! Planerar du att resa till Östra Oregon kan vi ge dig en lista med alla de populäraste sevärdheterna och hjälpa dig att ta reda på vilka aktiviteter du absolut inte får missa. Vare sig du planerar en familjesemester, en romantisk resa på tu man hand eller en affärsresa gör vi det enkelt för dig att hitta saker att göra i Östra Oregon.

Östra Oregon ståtar med massor av intressanta sevärdheter och aktiviteter. Vi kan hjälpa dig ta reda på var du bör bo i Östra Oregon och gör det busenkelt för dig att utforska Östra Oregon och närområdet med våra guider. Oavsett hur länge du stannar är det enkelt att hitta sevärdheter i Östra Oregon som garanterar att du får en fantastisk semester och inte missar någonting. Lämna lokalkännedomen till oss och njut av en bekymmersfri resa.

Planerar du en tur till Östra Oregon får du inte missa våra praktiska guider till sevärdheter i området. Här kan du få listor på saker att göra, lära dig mer om de populäraste attraktionerna och få hjälp med att planera din resa så att den blir något alldeles extra! Expedia gör det lätt att kolla in alla sevärdheterna i Östra Oregon.

Östra Oregons aktiviteter

Östra Oregon har någonting för alla, så oavsett om du planerar att hålla dig aktiv på semestern, unna dig en riktigt lyxig och romantisk vistelse eller fylla resan med underhållning och nöjen, så hittar du massor av aktiviteter i Östra Oregon som garanterat håller dig sysselsatt. På Expedia är det enkelt att boka flyg, hotell och hyrbil i förväg, vilket ger dig en bekväm och bekymmersfri resa, så du kan se alla Östra Oregons sevärdheter.

Det kan vara tidskrävande att leta efter saker att göra i Östra Oregon, men vi gör det enkelt att planera din semester. Vare sig du vill ge dig ut och utforska härlig natur, provsmaka de bästa rätterna från Östra Oregon eller fördjupa dig i den lokala kulturen kan våra tips om Östra Oregons attraktioner guida dig till en lyckad resa, oavsätt årstid. Trevlig resa!


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I själva Riverside finns kanske inte så många sevärdheter att besöka, men du behöver inte åka långt för att hitta intressanta saker att se och göra, som till exempel Pendleton Center for the Arts och Roy Raley Park.

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