Benson Bridge

 

We’ve had several days of below freezing temperatures.  The water falls in the Columbia Gorge have frozen up.  The reports I heard the other night of the Columbia River itself freezing up were greatly exagerated.

Multnomah Falls was surprisingly crowded – as many cars were there as I see in the summer.

 

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Benson Bridge, between the upper and lower falls of Multnomah Falls, was erected in 1914 – it’s 95 years old.

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I think this bridge has a fairytale-ish look to it – I find it in my camera’s viewfinder a lot.

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The water that flows under the bridge falls over five hundred feet from the top of the falls.  In below freezing temperatures.  There is a kind of music as the ice crystals fall to the frozen pool below the falls:

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