Here are some pics from our recent all day long 7 mile hike to Ramona Falls which is on the western side of Mt. Hood. the hike to the waterfall was amazingly surreal in its beauty. Katie said it looked like how she pictures the Garden of Eden.
Here is Eva using my sweater as a pillow. She slept for most of the hike up.
The view of Mt. Hood from about halfway up the trail.
Splashing beneath the falls with her new galoshes.
Ramona Falls is about 120 feet tall.
When we were hiking back down we passed a young family with two little kids, about 10 and 2 years old, hiking up to the falls. there was only about 40 minutes of sunlight left and they still had close to 4 hrs of hiking to do to get to the falls and back to the trailhead. They didn't have warm clothes or backpacks (so I am guessing they didn't have a lot of food or water). Part of the trail crosses an ice cold river that flows out from the glacier on Mt Hood and the only way to cross it is by walking on these thin wet logs. By the time Katie and I got to our car it was dark and we started worrying about that family with two little kids having to cross that river in the pitch dark after a 4 hr hike (they only had one little flashlight). We waited in the parking lot for 2 hrs looking at the stars and waiting to make sure they were safe. We didn't have a flashlight so we couldn't help out too much but we wanted to make sure they got out safe. Eventually the cops showed up because some other hikers had also seen the family and told the rangers they might get lost or stuck. At about 9 at night they finally came stumbling out of the woods. The lesson here is: Stars look really beautiful in the mountains and some people are dumb.
2 comments:
those were incredible pictures. How did you keep Eva happy while you were waiting in the car?
She was asleep.
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