CENTRAL OREGON
Our early summer 2016 road trip through the Pacific Northwest included two key areas of photographic interest in Oregon, Smith Rock and The Painted Hills.
Smith Rock State Park in central Oregon’s high desert is a Mecca for rock climbers of all levels. The area was cut out from volcanic basalt and rhyolite by the Crooked River leaving the cliffs about 600 feet high.
The Painted Hills Unit is one of three units in The John Jay Fossil Beds National Monument and Preserve in central Oregon. The multicolored hills were formed from layers of mudstone, siltstone, shale and lignite compressed over millions of years…
