Treks and Adventures
The Lori, Jeanette, Sylvia and I did a hike to see Wahclellah Falls. The trail recently reopened after some extensive work was done on it. This is a short hike with a lot of scenic beauty for your effort. Having to park in the upper parking lot added some mileage to our hike so we were at a little over 5 miles, over 500 ft. total elevation gain in two hours.
I did a hike with the Prime Timers up the Oak Ridge Trail and then along Surveyor Ridge Trail to a view and lunch spot. We had 26 folks on the hike with old friends and new ones I met. We did about 9 miles with 2350 ft. gain in about 5 hrs.
Went back to Hardy Ridge to see how the plants and flowers were doing. The ridge had flowers blooming but not yet in its best blooms yet. Everything is greening up except for the moss. Mixed weather conditions with very good view from the ridge. Ran into a Mazama hike group on the ridge. The hike was 9.5 miles with 2400 ft. total elevation gain and on the trail for about 5 hrs.
I did a hike of Sevenmile Hill with the Cascade Prime Timer today. This was a hike I had never been on before but had always wanted to do. Sevenmile Hill is famous for the fields of Balsamroot flowers that it has in Spring. It was a short hike at about 4 miles but with good elevation gain of about 1400 ft. We had great weather for the hike. It was a great group of folks to go hiking with.
I got out for a short exploratory hike in Forest Park this morning. I first went down Springville Rd. to where it becomes a neighborhood. Then went back up on Springville Rd., Leaf Ericson Rd. and then the Hardesty Trail that was a new one for me. I found a number of user trail coming off of Springville Rd. and Nieghborhood along Springville Rd. place that need further exploring. The hike was only 3 miles with 780 ft. elevation gain in 1 hour and 40 minutes.
