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Mount Hood (Days 18-21)
Mount Hood has been great to us, and tomorrow we'll get one last ski day in, then head back to Portland. But first an account of the past few days...
Thursday was a lazy day of sitting around the honeymoon cabin. We sat in the hot tubs in the snow, ate some cereal, and really just lounged around. That night though, we had the best meal of the …
We Are Still On Duty
... park benches are being restored and repainted, a raised flower bed has been cleaned of weeds and rocks, two fountains have been drained, cleaned and refilled, flower boxes filled with new plants and flower beds planted with pretty flowers. Many repairs have been made here at the hatchery grounds.
Projects still need to be started and/or completed and we have already been here for half of our stay. Boy does time fly when we are having fun!
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Hurry Up And Wait!
... and of course we asked a lot of questions. They were very helpful and soon led us to Hugh.
Hugh has been the head of landscape maintenance at the hatchery for the past 16 years. I think he appreciates the help given by the volunteer hosts but I get the impression that he does not like to supervise them. After all, he is mainly a groundskeeper who goes out and gets dirty with the rest of us. I must say however no matter his management style the grounds look great!
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IT ALWAYS SNOWS AT MT HOOD ??
REASONABLY LATE START FOR US TODAY WITH AN 8:45AM BUS PICK UP AT ESTACADA HIGH FOR A TRIP TO THE SNOW AT MOUNT HOOD.
EVERYONE ON THE BUS WAS EXCITED WITH MANY OF THE CREW NEVER HAVING SEEN SNOW "LIVE". AS WE PROGRESSED UP THE MOUNTAIN THE ANTICIPATION BUILT AS MORE AND MORE SNOW APPEARED BY THE SIDE OF THE ROAD FROM THE PREVIOUS NIGHTS FALL.
WHEN WE ARRIVED THE SCENERY WAS SPECTACULAR WITH SLOPING HILLS COVERED ...
PCT days 14-28: Skykomish to Cascade Locks, OR
... later, we connect to an old dirt road and follow it for 5 miles. Next comes decision time: we either bushwhack and ford the river to connect to another trail, or do a 3 additional miles to go around. We choose the bushwhacking...and quickly regret it. No less than 5 river crossings on downed trees and lots of heavy bushwhacking through spikey plants like Devil's Club. We make it across after an hour, a lot of sweat, and the unavoidable bruises ...
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