Oregon's high desert begins in the eastern rain shadow of the Cascades, ... Best photo op: The trouble with Oregon is that anyone who likes to take photos can spend a vacation doing nothing but.

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The rusty red trunks of ponderosa pine trees tower into the blue, blue skies of Eastern Oregon, holding a thousand clumps of green needles above the desert. A sparse, improbable “Lost Forest ...