The Hood River Bridge, crossing the mighty Columbia River, connecting the towns of Bingen and White Salmon, Washington, with my hometown of Hood River, Oregon. Built in 1924, located 169 miles upriver from the Columbia's mouth, at a spot where the river averages about one mile wide, the bridge rises up from 20 piers which are used to support its total length of 4,418 ft (1,347 m). When closed, the vertical waterway clearance is 67 ft (20m). This increases to 148 ft (45 m) when the bridge is open at a river level of 75', which typically happens once or twice a month. At the back right of the image, rising up over the orchards and forests of the Hood River Valley, is Mount Hood, a potentially active volcano, which at 11,249 ft (3,429 m)  is the tallest mountain in Oregon.

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