Sixty Hikes Within 60 MIles of Portland

With alot of time on our hands and a new place to explore, it seemed so easy to take at least a hike a week during our first year in Oregon. But with our move into the city and real life adult responsibilities like work and home ownership creeping back in, we have had to come up with other forms of motivation. One of these is to find friends who like to hike. Another is a book we bought titled "Sixty Hikes Within 60 Miles of Portland" that we have vowed to complete before, oh, I don't know, we leave Portland or ...we become too damn lazy or...we die. So we are off to the races...err...hikes... again.

Here we are at one of our favorite spots- Trillium Lake- near Mt. Hood snowshoeing with Dan and Diane Wilson- Redd. See other Trillium pics in previous posts in 2007 and 2008.

Boys and girls...do not try this without adult supervision!!!

Horsetail Falls

This spring, we made our first trip to Horsetail Falls Trail, the home of Triple Falls, along the Columbia Gorge...here are some pictures in collage format...hey, these blogging sites keep offering new tools that one just has to try...

Wild Flowers at Dog Mountain Revisited

With a steep climb and unpredictable weather along the Washington State side of the Gorge, only avid flower lovers are drawn to this hike. Surprisingly, most of those avid climbers were 70 years old or older which simultaneously gave us pause in light of our aching bones and muscles and inspired us to keep hiking for another 30 years!

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