Trails That Lure (1920) - historic Columbia River Gorge film

"Trails That Lure" was a film about recreation in the Columbia Gorge, commissioned by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (the agency which oversees the Forest Service). It was filmed by George R. Goergens in 1918, and released in 1920. Many of the sights remain very familiar, including Multnomah Falls, Eagle Creek, and what is now called the Historic Columbia River Highway.

[@bradstephan7886]

Outstanding! I've had the pleasure of hiking in the Gorge many times. Mt. Hamilton and Angel's Rest are two favorites.

[@HOSteam]

Great old movie/video! Thanks.

[@hardcorp7584]

and you can see all of the great dams we built . you can also see the beautiful giant white wind turbines turning gently along the rolling hills.

[@peterdallman4550]

Well, we need the water and we need the power! Gotta come from somewhere! Me, I’d prefer a huge solar farm and giant storage facility over the trains carrying hundreds of car of coal going to some plant that’ll spew crap into the air. They’ve only recently started covering the tops of the coal cars after discovering coal dust in large quantities in the water and along the banks of the Columbia. Then there’s there leakage from Hanford!!

[@StuffandThings_]

@@peterdallman4550 Really we need less people who require so much water and power in the first place. The Fraser river still runs free as it only has to support Vancouver, and BC as a whole is pretty sparsely populated. Hopefully geothermal will take care of the power needs but water consumption is a tough one to satisfy in any other way... I'd prefer none of this stuff, no infrastructure whether turbines or solar, just a fantastic undisturbed landscape. But you can't have that in a nation of over 300 million... only in the old films from back when this stuff was still just sparse settlements of Native Americans, a few hardy homesteaders, and a couple coastal cities much smaller than they are today.

[@peterdallman4550]

@@StuffandThings_ I agree, but having less people who require less water is not realistic. You need power from somewhere! Elon Musk said, “Give me 100 square miles of desert land for solar panels and 1 square mile of battery storage and I can power the entire United States” Bury the cables and you eliminate most of the eyes sores. I’d prefer we not dam up our beautiful rivers either. Dams were not created with salmon in mind, it was a distant afterthought! Some other really promising forms of energy exist. Algae -oil is a really great one.

[@StuffandThings_]

@@peterdallman4550 Less people is not unrealistic, birth control exists. Also, quoting Elon for anything technical... LMAO. That man is a quack engineer. Solar is an absolute nightmare environmentally due to the production and maintenance.

[@barbaradarnell7376]

In the shots of the Eagle Creek trail the cable hand rails don't seem to have been installed yet.9:57