Finding the better way home not only saved us time, but gave us the opportunity to visit Multnomah Falls, someplace my mom hadn't been in nearly 30 years. Megan can now check it off her list of "places to go" as well.
Friday, June 3, 2005
Lost at Lost Lake
This past Sunday we decided to take a day trip to Lost Lake. The hiking guide directions had us doing lots of extra mileage on backcountry forest service roads from Zigzag instead of taking the straight-shot paved way from Hood River (our return route). For a good while we thought we were only going to get Lost, instead of getting to Lost Lake, but we finally arrived and had a nice hike around the lake. The guidebook promised "expansive views of Mt. Hood," but the cloudy weather didn't cooperate. My mom asked us where Mt. Hood was; Mac and I pointed in opposite directions. When we spotted the massive peak driving home, we both claimed to be right. (Sidenote: on Saturday we took my mom and Mac's aunt to see our new house. Mac took a new road on our way home. "Where are you going??" I queried. "This will take us north back to downtown." "No it won't," I replied, "We are going South." We ended up at the Ankeny Wildlife Refuge, directly south of our new place.)
Finding the better way home not only saved us time, but gave us the opportunity to visit Multnomah Falls, someplace my mom hadn't been in nearly 30 years. Megan can now check it off her list of "places to go" as well.
Finding the better way home not only saved us time, but gave us the opportunity to visit Multnomah Falls, someplace my mom hadn't been in nearly 30 years. Megan can now check it off her list of "places to go" as well.
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I firmly belive that Mt. Hood moves around and pops up in strange places. It must be her idea of a joke.
ReplyDeleteThat's hilarious, the first time we went to Lost Lake we took the same dirt-road route north from Zigzag and also got lost. And almost broke an axle on the boulder-strewn road. We wound up following a soggy paper sign tacked to a post that indicated Lost Lake via an arrow that didn't really correspond to an road option we had.
ReplyDeleteBut we found it, and the view really is expansive on a nice day. Plus, during a certain time of year, the place is crawling with salamanders. I encourage you to check it out again some time.