{"id":9523,"date":"2022-09-17T06:00:47","date_gmt":"2022-09-17T13:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cowlesmountain.com\/Travels\/?p=9523"},"modified":"2022-09-20T09:30:26","modified_gmt":"2022-09-20T16:30:26","slug":"crow-butte-on-the-columbia-river","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cowlesmountain.com\/Travels\/2022\/09\/17\/crow-butte-on-the-columbia-river\/","title":{"rendered":"Crow Butte, an Island on the Columbia River"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Quite a nice place in the middle of nowhere on an island in the Columbia River.\u00a0\u00a0 We have stayed elsewhere along the Columbia River and it’s a major artery for trains heading east and west, on both sides of the river.\u00a0 Luckily this time there were no crossings so we didn’t hear one whistle during the 5 nights we camped there.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>A few days into being their I happened to be looking out the side window and saw a huge tractor driving by.\u00a0\u00a0 After a few seconds I saw that it was pulling a fairly large 5th wheel trailer.\u00a0\u00a0 It then pulled in next to us.\u00a0 We \"\"<\/a>occasionally see HDT’s (heavy duty trucks) but usually they are the smaller regional style Volvo’s.\u00a0\u00a0 This was a first seeing something \"\"<\/a>this big pulling a 5th wheel.\u00a0\u00a0 I bet its challenging when you have to go to the grocery store in that thing.\u00a0 The tractor itself is very long and probably doesn’t fit well into a handicap space at the store..<\/p>\n

The first couple days there was almost no wind, but there were a lot of flies.\u00a0 Kind of made sitting outside an annoying game of swatting the flies constantly.\u00a0\u00a0 Then suddenly on the 3rd afternoon a constant 10 MPH wind started and stayed around that speed for the rest of the week.\u00a0 The day prior to leaving, it got a bit higher and most of the afternoon there were whitecaps on the river.\u00a0\u00a0 That seemed very odd.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>They do water the grass here constantly like water is free.\u00a0 I guess they might have a shallow well that fills from the river.\u00a0 All around the area it was quite arid.\u00a0 Golden brown hillsides with the occasional vineyard on a hillside.<\/p>\n

It was a long way to anywhere from here.\u00a0 The closest town was 14 miles, and it was just 3 restaurants and a fuel station.\u00a0 I drove there to pick up lunch one afternoon, it just seemed like a very long drive.\u00a0 We are on the north side of the river (Washington side) and it was probably 40 miles east to a\u00a0 bridge to civilization and about 60 miles to the west.\u00a0\u00a0 There is pretty much nothing along the river on the Washington side.<\/p>\n

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Quite a nice place in the middle of nowhere on an island in the Columbia River.\u00a0\u00a0 We have stayed elsewhere along the Columbia River and it’s a major artery for trains heading east and west, on both sides of the river.\u00a0 Luckily this time there were no crossings so we didn’t hear one whistle during … <\/p>\n

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