Washington

This past weekend we decided to venture over the Washington side of the Gorge, so first we went for a hike up Wind Mountain, a beautiful, cinder cone just west of Dog Mountain. The trail is not well maintained, in fact some parts are a little scary. Not plunge to your death scary, but certainly slide down a hillside bouncing off of bushes and trees scary. Fortunately, that didn't happen. It is also a fairly steep trail, but boy the views at the top are well worth the hike.

Since Mother Nature is refusing to rain on us, we were forced to get out and about for the second weekend in a row. The "it rains in Portland nine months out of the year" ain't no joke. Well, it ain't no joke most years, but this year the jokes on us because it hasn't rained very much. The rainy season is usually the time to sit back, do some reading, drinking coffee and, in my case, programming, but when the sun is shining and the temperatures are approaching 60, well, you just have to get out and go.