Sport Today

I went up to Celilo last Saturday to try and check out just where the falls
really was.  I had in hand the picture which shows the falls and the bridge
which started all this discussion.  I also had the book which Roger Crystal
loaned me which shows the falls from an aerial type view.  The problem is the
aerial view did not show the bridge.

After doing some hiking on the hills of the Oregon side of the river, I found
the spot where the aerial view was taken.  It was not taken from an airplane
but from a spot on the Oregon side almost directly in line with the train
bridge.  The picture was looking East and shows the falls about half way
between the train bridge and the park.  The falls is in the shape of a horse
shoe.  If you look in from the bottom of the shoe you would be looking directly
North.  This allowed someone to stand on the gravel bar at the West end of the
park and take a picture looking West and have water comming over the falls
towards them.  The following diagram might help:

      N
      ^                     Washington
 W<---|--->E
___
-- \
--||-------------------------------------------------------------------------
  ||
  || <-- Railroad         ==============<======= River Channel =====<=====
  ||     Bridge           ||
  ||                      ||
  ||                      ||
  ||                     .*.            _____________________________
  ||           Falls--> *   *           O Falls Picture             |
  ||                    *   *           | Taken Here                |
  ||                      ||            |                           |
==||=======<======<====== ||            |      CELILO PARK          |
  ||                                    |                           |
--||-----------------------------------------------------------------------
  ||_____________________    
  \---------------------           Oregon

  O "Aerial" Picture taken here looking East  

The original falls picture was taken 20 to 30 feet lower than you can now
get because of the Dalles Dam.  The sky line matches up exactly but the
major difference is the train bridge.  They have added a movable section
to the bridge over the channel.  This was done when the dam was put in so the
early picture of the falls does not show it.  It has massive concrete pillars
which were added.  A picture taken from the same spot today looks very
different becasue the bridge is all different and there are lots of power
lines on the hills which also came with the dam.

In the past I had posted that the falls was below the bridge.  I now stand
corrected and have taken my own pictures from the same spots to prove just
where this land mark is really burried.

Wilton

PS:   While I was there it was about 50 degrees and the wind was blowing
      about 5.0.  I did not have my gear with me or I would have sailed on
      January 1 1994.

Thanks for the info!

Marty, Rowayton CT. "If in doubt, both feet out. In a spin, both feet in"

On another note, there has been good West wind every weekend this year.  
I have sailed the last two weekends.  So far Saturday was the best day of
the new year.  It was 3.0 at Maryhill with air temperature of about 50 degrees.
If this keeps up we may have a very good early season.  

It is interesting to look at the news and see -38 degees below zero in the
midwest and have it be so warm here.  

On a semi-related note:  I thought I saw someone in a
rec.windsurfing t-shirt in the Skamania Lodge dinning room
yesterday.  That all you can chow buffet did look interesting from
the bar. [8^)  I should have investigated, but this happened on our
way out.  

Ken "Eagle Creek Trail Hiker" Berger

Rolland