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Multnomah Falls ~ Franklin Ridge Loop Hike
Length: 10 miles one way or 12 mile loop
Elevation Change: 2760′ gain
Season: Late spring thru fall
Difficulty: Difficult due to steepness of trail and length of hike
Permit: Not Required
Features: Note: Bridge above Triple Falls is out 11/10/08
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This is the hike we did this past October 30, I have wanted to start a online hike blog and just haven’t gotten to it yet, so I’ll post this here to remind me to do it.
Holy Frack! I just noticed the bridge is out at Triple Falls, that is around the last 3-4 miles from the direction we took, had it been out when we was there we would have been so fucked, it was dusk by the time we got there, we would have had to go back up and down a hard ass trail with little food and water and small flash light.
Good thing I don’t stress over what could have happen, but I am happy we got packs, head lamps, and extra gear for “what could happen”.
Monday we are going to take a few hours to all day off and just go on a few hikes and see what happens.
I’m thinking we are going to grab some Starbucks, some subs and snacks and just take off with our packs and cameras and see what we see on some of these trails.
http://www.nwhiker.com/gorge1.html
I’m thinking trails 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, and maybe 53 and 16, all are easy to moderate and less than 2 miles each, so depending on which trails we take and crowd and everything else, we may also drive to The Dalles since she has never been that far East on I84 and that is one of the most incredible scenes from a highway that there is in the US.
Tuesday is a must work day since we blew this weekend and now Monday off and Wednesday after the garbage takes away all the yard waste we collected (and will be getting rid of for at least the next 3 weeks since we are limited to 1 large container) and some new running shoes I desperately need since my feet and knees are taking a beating are suppose to be delivered.
We laid some river rock and stone path last weekend and naturally we didn’t get enough of either so we made a second trip to Home Depot Monday to get more of both and naturally I dropped a 70# jagged piece of slat into my right knee and bruised and gashed it some and still we was 2 more rocks short since the space I thought would work wouldnt, so for the 3rd time in a week we moved rocks.
That is getting kind of old.
Oh yeah, Wednesday we are also going to Vancouver, BC for the night to to see Diesle and hopefully meet some other friends in the city the next morning for breakfast and some freinds in Seattle for dinner on the way back.
Tonight I also made our annual $55 donation to the billionaire Vince McMahon and ordered WrestleMania 25 and outside a stunning Shawn Michael’s vs Undertaker (who is now 17-0 at WrestleMania) it wasn’t worth much more than $25 but I did enjoy Ricky Steamboat vs Jericho, for his age Steamboat did well, but got bored with the Micky Rourke story, but it made the mainstream news which is what its all about.
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Today was a beautiful day out. It was in the 30s this am, so it took forever to get the chill out of the house. But the sun was out and we hit about 63 and are suppose to hit 70 tomorrow. So looking forward to it. I would love it to be warm enough to have all our windows open.
We didn’t want to go anywhere, but with the weather I was restless. I didn’t really feel like a walk, I wanted to get some things done around the house. Hubby racked up what can be called a back yard for lack of a better description…lol I swept up all the down branches, leaves and tree needles that were on the side of house. We filled up our yard waste container to the rim. We have about 2 more containers worth in the back once they empty this one Wednesday.
We need to pick up some more walk way rock and flowers for the front patch and bedroom balcony. Not sure what we are doing in the back yard. We get a lot of shade, so we can’t plant roses and don’t think grass would work, besides it is too small and not worth getting a lawn mower for it. The good thing is that we have a very nice size deck. =) Once the leaves grow out and we get a little bit more work done, I’ll take some pictures to show our families.
I didn’t do any internet work………grin It felt good. That will change tomorrow evening when I start worrying about what I need to get done on Monday, especially if we are heading up to Canada on Tues I need to get things done. But today we watched the Sarah Connor Chronicles and Mich St beat UConn downstairs away from the pcs and in the sunlight. It was nice. =)
Then I attacked the house on vacuuming. Got it all but the stairs, I can’t handle the vacuum for that, that is something for hubby. =)
Then I took some pictures of our town house. They are posted on this page : http://www.paulineantoinette.com/bio/
Here is the link to the actual gallery : http://paulineantoinette.com/PNH/house/2009_Apr/index.htm
There is no pictures of our office, it is a mess. If we get cleaned up, I will take a few pictures. But there is some work that we want to do in there first.
Like I stated farther up, once all the greens come in and we do a little bit more work, I’ll take some pictures of the outside.
We hope to get to the garage tomorrow, if not, I’ll go for a walk.
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