Oneonta Gorge, post Eagle Creek Fire

            For those who did not live through it, the Eagle Creek fire was a massive forest fire that broke out in the Columbia River Gorge in September of 2017 after a teenage boy started it by throwing fireworks off the trail and into the forest.  It burned for three months, and was still found to be smoldering in places as late as May, 2018.  The fire consumed about 50,000 acres of land total and shut down much of the Gorge's natural areas to hiking until limited reopenings began in 2019.  Even to this day, there are several trails that remained closed due to the danger of landslides or just because the trails were wiped out in the fire and have not been rebuilt.  

I recently got to hike up one of those trails on a recent visit to the Gorge.  For a long time the upper reaches of Oneonta Gorge have been closed off past Upper Horsetail Falls, so I was thrilled to see the blockade had been removed when we last ventured up to the falls.  Naturally I had to push on up the trail I had not set foot on since sometime in 2017 at the most recent (it may have been as long ago as 2016 even).  It was a sight to come around the end of Oneonta Gorge, where the trail enters and descends into the valley there as it makes it way to the footbridge over the creek.  It was quite the contrast between the still-bare forest with its burnt trees and the thriving undergrowth.  Coincidentally enough I was reading the book The Big Burn about the massive forest fire in Idaho and Montana in 1910, so I really had forest fires on my mind as I walked through this beautiful but eerie landscape.  It was one of those scenes where it just does not seem like any photo can do the experience justice, but I had to try.

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Taken on: July 24, 2021

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