Well we went and hiked The Gorge and no one died. It wound up being pretty great weather the entire time. It was fun getting to do my favorite activity (hiking) in my favorite place (The Gorge) with my favorite person (Joie, just kidding...).
We had a little set back the first day because they're doing road construction. On Sunday we hiked about six hours and then another two on Monday morning. There were some clouds at the tops of the mountains, but other than that it was great. Oh yeah, and we got rained on for only about twenty minutes. There is this one part of the Gorge called the 28 bends. It is a set of 28 switchbacks that go up and up the mountain. Lindsey and I got to about bend 24 and it started to rain. By the time we scrambled to the top it was pouring down rain. There was a small lean-to at the top with an old man sitting in it, so we ran under it and waited out the rest of the rain.
Other than that, the hike was pretty uneventful. On the way out, we waited for a driver to come by so we could hop in his van. After waiting a while, the owner of the guest house told us we should walk about 15 minutes up the road because a lot of the drivers stop there to turn around. We made the hike up the nice newly paved road and rounded the corner to find out that a huge boulder had fallen and wiped out about a 30 yard section of the road. All that was left was a small goat trail around the side of the ridge. After some debate if we should do it (and watching 3 Chinese guys push a motorcycle across it) we walked across and got a ride back.
It was a fun trip and a nice break from all of the running around we have been doing. Tomorrow we finish off our time in LJ and head down south for some coffee work.
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