On our way back from Courtney and Matt’s wedding, we drove through the Columbia Gorge just a few hours after they opened the west-bound lanes for traffic. The Eagle Creek Fire has been raging through the Gorge for a while and we were pretty surprised they let us drive through.
The fire is just a few hundred feet away through the trees at this point on the road.
We actually saw flames all the way down to the eastbound lanes.
There were fire crews parked all over the place on the eastbound lanes working on the blaze while we drove through. Crazy!