New Discovery in Portland!!!!

Dennis and I decided Saturday (since it was such a nice sunny day in Portland) to go on a hike. We went to Washington Park, which is where the zoo, childrens museum, timber museum, and the hoyt arboretum all are. There is a 4-mile hike through the park that looked really good. We set off and were having a wonderful time hiking along the trails, and trying to decide which trail we should stay on. It was beautiful in the woods, great views, lots of different trees that they have identified, bamboo, redwoods, cedars, etc. After we had hiked for about 3 miles, we took a wrong trail and ended up in another park next to Washington Park. We hiked up another, steeper, trail and ended up at this great old mansion that you can go through. We asked around, and finally ended up going back the way we came until we reached another map telling us which way we should have gone. We had hiked another 2.4 miles out of our way! By this time we were starving and I had some good blisters working on both feet. We ate our granola bar and got back on the right trail and headed back to the car. We ended up going a total of 6.4 miles on our hike. It was so pretty there in the park! Dennis and I are great for getting lost!

This was our map and if you look real hard, you will see trails everywhere. We had actually ended up off the map in the top right corner when we got lost. Note: Never just follow other hikers unless you know where they are going to. We had a great time. My feet will be back to normal in a few days and we want to tackle this trail again and get it right and hike the 4 miles. It is a very popular place to hike, lots of people on the trail (except where we went the wrong way, and then it was only us and another couple that we followed, should have been first clue).

Come visit us in Portland and we will take you on this great hike (the 4 mile one).