Portland winters can be brutal. Not in the romantic way of an old-timey novel with frozen rivers and deep drifts of snow, but in a boring, ceaseless rain way, a gray sky, wet socks way. There’s a reason that Lewis and Clark hated Oregon. Warming up your body has been one way to combat the dark winters since long before white people showed up on the scene. Chinook villages had sweat lodges for spiritual and recreational sweating. In the Portland area, more and more people are discovering those spiritual and recreational benefits for themselves. Read more at the link in our bio. 📸: Lizzy Acker #sauna #hotsauna #sweat #portland #portlandoregon #oregon #theoregonian