Treks and Adventures
Once again doing the Hardy Ridge Loop Hike at Beacon Rock State Park. This time packing more camera gear to tryout. Hike was 10 mile, 2350 ft. elevation gain in about 7 hours. I want to what the state of the flowers were and worked between three different cameras to see how they did.
Lori, Jeanette, Sylvia and I did a walk along Vancouver Waterfront. Same route that we had often done before but the fog on the river gave it a different look. The walk was about 5 miles. Along the walk we stopped in at the Waterfront Taphouse 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
After several days of rain we had a break in the weather so I took advantage of it to do some more scouting on the Sandy River Greenway Trail. There was a new section of trail added to it that now connects Troutdale to it and on to the 40 mile loop. The new trail runs through the new Sharon Nesbit Heritage Park and then joins the Ch’ak Ch’ak Trail. There a number of user trails that connect to the Ch’ak Ch’ak Trail and run down to the Sandy River. I spent most of my time checking these out. In all I got nine miles of walking in.
I attempted to hike to Nesmith Point but with bad trail condition did not make it. It was a really good conditioning hike but a rough trail to hike these days. Lot of loose rocks and over grown trail. Hike was 10 miles and 3000 ft. elevation gain.
