Optional Excursions:

The Rubicon Team believes you should play just as hard as you work; therefore, we would love to share some of the fantastic opportunities our beautiful city has to offer. This page is provided to help you choose an optional excursion. You will select, register and pay for your excursion when you fill out the Workshop Registration Form. If you have questions, contact Kathrine Giacchino.

IMPORTANT INFORMATION:
These tours are privately contracted by Rubicon International and therefore, advance registration is required. The final day to register for or cancel an excursion is one week prior to your workshop. No refunds are possible for cancellations received after that date. Prices may vary based on the number of registrants per excursion.


• Underground Portland
  Portland Microbrew Tour
• First Thursday
  
• Powell's Book Store & Dinner in the Pearl
  
• Columbia Gorge Hike & Edgefield
  

• Duration: 2.5 hours
• Transportation: Walking (less than 2.0 miles)
• Cost: $19.00
• Includes: Guided Tour

Not all of the illicit, naughty, bawdy, corrupt and shady activities happened below street level, but all were underground and hidden. On this walk you'll be exposed to the social underground and the subterranean underground. This walk is a treat for lovers of all things sinister - crime, scandal and controversial characters - this tour winds through Old Town and Chinatown, exposing the city's sordid side.
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 Portland Microbrew Tour

• Duration: 2 hours
• Transportation: Arranged or Public
• Cost: $25.00
• Includes: Transportation, beer samples, appetizer

Expose yourself to Better Beer! You'll learn about different styles of beer (ales, lagers, porters, stouts, hefeweizens, kolsch, Alt, etc.). Find out why Portland is the home of craft brewing. Find out why local ingredients (hops, water, yeast and malt) are so important to the taste and quality.

It's the "College of Brew Knowledge." Can you pass the test?
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First Thursday Walking Tour

• Duration: 2 hours
• Transportation: Public & Walking (less than 2 miles)
• Cost: Free
• Includes: Guided Tour

The art galleries in downtown Portland, Oregon, open their doors on the "First Thursday" of every month for an evening of art, wine and music. Walk from gallery to gallery to view all of the new art exhibits.
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 Powell's Book Store & Dinner in the Pearl

• Duration: 2 hours
• Transportation: Public & Walking (less than 1 mile
• Cost: Book Purchases & Dinner
• Includes: Guided Tour

Powell's City of Books is a book lover's paradise, the largest used and new bookstore in the world. Located in downtown Portland, Oregon and occupying an entire city block, the City stocks more than a million new and used books. Nine color coded rooms house over 3,500 different sections, offering something for every interest, including an incredible selection of out-of-print and hard-to-find titles.

The City's Rare Book Room gathers autographed first editions and other collectible volumes for readers in search of a one-of-a-kind treasure.
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Columbia Gorge Hike & Edgefield

• Duration: 4 hours
• Transportation: Arranged & Hiking (2.6 miles)
• Cost: $10 & Dinner
• Includes: Transportation, guided hike, water & trail snack, photo stop at Multnomah Falls

This is a stunning low elevation loop in the Columbia River Gorge. There are views of three waterfalls and a couple of views of Oneonta Gorge.

The trail begins in one of the most scenic trailheads anywhere, at Horsetail Falls. Horsetail Falls Trail begins climbing some easily graded switchbacks with beautiful rock walls. The trail passes behind Ponytail Falls in a cavernous area eroded beneath a lava flow. Rockfalls here support moss, ferns and a few large maples. The trail crosses Oneonta Creek on a metal bridge. Just above the bridge is Middle Oneonta Falls, a 15' drop. Just below the bridge, the creek disappears over the brink of Lower Oneonta Falls into Oneonta Gorge.

As we head back towards Portland, the tour will enjoy dinner at historic Edgefield Manor.
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