Summer Hiking Adventure #3

After an off-week last week due to strawberry picking, this week we were planning on hiking Ramona Falls over by Mt. Hood. Unfortunately we forgot our NW Forest Pass in Kelli's work car which is getting worked on and didn't want to fork out any extra money. So we decided last night we would do Silver Star Mountain in Washington only to wake up and have it be pretty cloudy and kind of rainy out. If we're going to do that hike, it's got to be clear!

So, we ended up driving east where it was actually sunny and beautiful today just past Hood River by a tiny town called Mosier. We did the McCall Point Hike.

This was an enjoyable hike, and it was great to have a nice change up from the typical Gorge hike as beautiful as those are. We were out in the open most of the time on this one and the breeze felt incredible and the sun was quite hot as well. Plenty of poison oak and ticks to go around! I'm really glad I didn't wear shorts this morning! Good call on this hike. It wasn't a super long hike but felt much steeper than the book and internet said, but it was a nice hike nonetheless. It was a perfect day out east! Bummer to get back to rainy Portland.

I think we're going to have to take a week off next Saturday as well due to a prior engagement and then it's off to Coyote Wall.


The rest of the pics can be found here.












This is where we thought we were almost done only to realize there was still quite a bit to go!
































The top is pretty much just one large wild flower field. It would be a great hike around May. Many of the flowers were already gone.