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The Gorge - I use to climb with my buddy Keith back when we were teenagers. But as I got older my interests went els wear. In 2021 my friend Lee called me and gave me this “We’re not getting any younger” speech. His idea was to get out to see and touch places that no one has ever been. He had previously taken a trip to the Oregon coast and visited a place called The Devils Cauldron. It’s a majestic place that has practically a 360 degree wall of cliffs. It’s almost as if the earth built a football stadium on the edge of the ocean that you can peer over. Where waves crash up to 100 feet onto the cliff walls. It’s huge to say the least with its ocean filled 300 foot sea walls. After Lee told me about this place, he suggested that we could eventually rappel down this cliff for a future goal after a few years. We wound up concurring that goal just a few months later. This song represents the natural beauty that I find when driving through the Columbia Gorge here in Oregon and Washington.