Opal Creek

This is my kind of place! Gemstones in the name - yeah baby!

I spent three days chaperoning my son's class in the Opal Creek Ancient Forest. Pristine, never-been-logged, old-growth forest in the Central Oregon Cascades near Detroit Lake. Absolutely gorgeous - such diversity of life in this place - it feels sacred.

Avalanche lilies grow in carpets of moss clinging to steep hillsides above the raging water