Driving through Oregon Wilderness Published May 20, 2015 at 1280 × 960 in Oregon Gym Climbing and Smith Rocks, the First Climbs of our Trip ← Previous Next → Old Tree Stumps near a Lake in Oregon One of our stops from Portland to the Breitenbush Hot Springs. We think the trees were harvested around a century ago and are exposed with the low lake levels. I was surprised to learn that Oregon is also having a year of drought.