A colleague and I failed to heed the time-tested advice of T-Boz, Left Eye and Chili and ran around Silver Falls over the weekend. There's some stunning and downright nature-ific beauty to be found within its borders. Please enjoy these snapshots in all their 7-megabyte glory....

This one is called Frenchie Falls, named for Roland "Frenchie" Lecompte, the assistant manager of Silver Falls State Park in the '60s. Why did he land the smallest waterfall in the place? No idea but my guess is that the then manager wasn't a big fan of "cheese-eating surrender monkeys." Note: I do not approve of this sort of nationalist name-calling because I am quite fond of cheese-eating surrender monkeys and their native culture. Crepes rock.

Also: there were chipmunks.

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