Mitchell's Point Tunnel Beyond Cascade Locks and near Hood River is Mitchell's Point, the old Storm Crest of the Indians, approached by the most daring piece of masonry of the entire highway. Here, as at Crown Point, and in many other places, engineers had to be hung over cliffs with ropes 150 to 200 feet long to blast footing enough to make a survey. The most expensive piece of construction on the highway is Mitchell's Point Tunnel |