Here's a list of links to sites where I've worked or lived since graduating from Reed College in 1988. OR The link is to a camera on the Pittock Mansion in the West Hills and it looks down on the downtown area that borders the Willamette River. You won't be able to see much because it will be either dark or raining or both. Pittock Mansion stands in the middle of Forest Park, which runs parallel to the river for about 25 miles, mostly in the West Hills. It's the biggest park wholly contained by a city in the United States.
Several runners fall to their doom off the steep, multi-hundred feet precipices every year.
Slippery mud and poor visibility get them. If you're from California, you really don't want to move here. Portland is a very grim, depressing place. British Columbia is also very nice. If you want to see Berlin from the military community's perspective, look at, The Berlin Wall.