The Santiam River flows west from the Cascades into the Willamette Valley. In its journey it is funneled through a narrow slot in the lava river bed at the Niagara Narrows. This photo shows the river flow immediately before the narrow gap.br/ br/A short video (06:40 in duration) showing more of this photo site and what inspired us to do the photo shoot is posted on my YouTube channel at the following link:br/ br/a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xOr8ph0hiI8" target="_self"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xOr8ph0hiI8/a