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Youll meet us at our inner SE Portland location at the corner of SE Main Street and 9th Avenue, near the roasteries for Coava Coffee and Stumptown. Once you arrive, have some local tea or coffee (a pourover prepared by your tour guide, perhaps) while we fit you for a bike and helmet. Your guide will load your bikes in a comfortable Sprinter van or SUV and head out toward the western edge of the Columbia Gorge. You and your group will take a scenic stop to introduce you to the geology and microclimates through which youll shortly be riding. While your guide unloads your bikes, grab photos of the vistas before you don your helmet; then ride down the thrilling, magical curves of the Historic Columbia River Highway. You and your guide will ride three to four miles, stopping at the beautiful Vista House, before parking your bikes at the trailhead for the Latourell Falls loop hike. Your guide will secure your bikes as you head towards this stunning waterfall, a 2.5-mile loop up above the top of the more often-visited lower Latourell Falls toward the beautiful upper falls, an abundant waterfall that plunges over a columnar basalt cavern among a mass of wildflowers and wild berry plants. The cavern is close enough to the path that you can wander into it, feeling the dripping of the water from over your head, feeling the ancient walls beside and above you. Take your time, exploring the huge Western redcedars and enormous old Douglas-firs, smelling the fringe cups in the spring, tasting the berries in the late summer. At the end of your hike, youll continue on your bikes to Bridal Veil Falls, where you can wander a third of a mile down the western edge of the waterfall and approach this tiered beauty from below. Your guide will put the bikes back on the vehicle and youll get back in for one last waterfall experience. You and your group will drive the short distance to Multnomah Falls, the stunning 620-foot highest falls in Oregon, where you will have an opportunity to stop briefly for photographs from the base of the f
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