Treks and Adventures
Lori, Jeanette and I did a walk along Salmon Creek in the Salmon Creek Regional Park in Vancouver, WA. The place has a very barron look this time of year. Our out and back walk was about 5.5 miles long. Afterwards we went to Billygun’s Roadhouse for lunch.
A last minute choice for Lori, Jeanette and I to do a walk around Lake Sacajawea in Longview Washington. It was a lovely and scenic park with lots of features to see. Our walk was about 3.5 miles long. Afterwards we went to Columbia Inn Restaurant in Kalama for lunch.
A solo Gorge hike to Angles Rest and then on to Devils Rest and back. This turned into a very chilly hike with cold temperatures some very strong wind gust. It was fun to find the new trails they have put in and I would like to go back and explore those more when the weather is better.
By the number: 9.5 miles, about 3000 ft. total elevation gain, 4 1/2 hours on the trail
Lori, Jeanette, Sylvia and I did a 4 mile hike at Whipple Creek Regional Park in Washington and then went to the Sportsman’s Pub House Ridgefield.
It seams like on Northwest trails every time you hike it it is a new experience. This time I did the Hardy Ridge Loop Trail clockwise with snow being the new point of interest. I started find snow at the 1600 elev. level and 1900 elev. it was solid. It was only two to four inches down lower but by the time I got to the ridge crest it was six to eight inches. The snow was slushy so a lot of slipping and sliding. I found only few tracks of folks getting up to ridge and no track running the ridge. I did about 8 1/4 miles with around 1880 ft gain.
