Multnomah Falls, Partially Frozen

Footage of Multnomah Falls in Oregon on December 17, 2008 in the midst of an unusual amount of snow. Thanks to Jon for this nice video.

And now for some photos...

So, uh...yeah...
When you're standing in front of a tourist destination such as Multnomah Falls and you ask a bystander to take a picture of you, you'd expect they'd obviously know to include the tourist attraction in the background, right?

Wrong.
Apparently, we expected too much of the three gentlemen--all friends--hovering around the Falls, each of them with a camera (they even had tripods so it wasn't just casual shooting...) We figured we were in good hands...but no. This is what we got:
Oh yeah. That's nice. A picture of us in front of some greenery. Thanks.
Frankly, we were flabbergasted. How very odd. We figured we could do better than that and hence ended up with this:
And then one of me flying solo: