Multnomah Falls

"Plummeting 620 feet from its origins on Larch Mountain, Multnomah Falls is the second highest year-round waterfall in the United States."

I hiked to the top. Around the 8th switchback I started to wonder if I was really going to make it. The rest of the way up wasn't bad at all.



















From 8-9pm that night there was a record amount of rain. I am glad that I was safely in a hotel and not out camping that night!

The National Weather Service said a heavy shower dumped 1.03 inches between 8 and 9 p.m. Tuesday — more rain than any one-hour period at the airport since the weather service began keeping those records in 1953.

Forecaster Clinton Rockey told The Oregonian the old record was 0.93 inch that fell during an hourlong period on May 24, 2008

Read more: http://www.statesmanjournal.com/article/20100909/UPDATE/100909007/Portland-airport-sets-1-hour-rainfall-record#ixzz10YIVjAu2