February 22, 2022 I Spoke Too Soon!
Winter came roaring back with a series of storms that dumped over a foot of snow in parts of the Cascade Mountains. Of course we had scheduled a trip to Bend during this time! We had a good trip over the mountains to Bend, then a couple of inches of snow fell in Bend. We returned over slushy, icy roads safely to Newport!
We had a really dirty car to clean up!
Looking back from whence we came, at the snow covered foothills of the Cascades, along the shore of Foster Reservoir in Sweet Home;