Convergence Zone
This Easter season, the confectioners of Dilettante Chocolate Café bring you the motherlode: Meet Thumper, a 40-lb. solid milk chocolate bunny who could crush a dozen Cadbury eggs with a flex of his big toe. He's one of several giant chocolate figures that the company creates during Christmas and Easter...
By Katherine Sather | April 13, 2006
Hike of the Week
Spring often visits Cougar Mountain Regional Wildland Park before it shows up anywhere else. When rumors of wildflowers began to fly in the lowlands, it was high time to sample the magic of trilliums, spring beauties, coltsfoot, Indian plum, skunk cabbage and more.
By Karen Sykes | April 13, 2006
Short Trips
I've visited the Columbia River Gorge several times but never managed to tour what many tourists have touted over the years as the most scenic part of this geologic wonder. That would be the stretch on the Oregon side beginning at Cascade Locks (near the Bonneville Lock and Dam) and ending at Crown Point (Vista House) on the historic, narrow, winding Columbia River Highway.
By Jeff Larsen | April 13, 2006
