chiefWright wrote:Floralfantastica! You sure hit the flower jackpot on this trip, and it's zoomed up to the top of my next visit East of Hood River. Looks like Maggie had a good time, too.
I assume this is a "new" Friends of the Gorge trail? Do you have a map reference for this trail, or is it pretty obvious (unlike Catherine, where tracks go every which way)?
Yes, she certainly enjoyed it, as did my wife and me
. As for the trail, yes, this is a new Friends of the Gorge trail that just opened in September, though parts of it have been open for years. Here's the link:
http://gorgefriends.org/display.php?modin=51&uid=4894 Once we located the trailhead at the bridge, we didn't bother looking at the rest of the link (the trail was very easy to follow) but it lead to us making a mistake, as we went to the viewpoint and assumed that was the end of the trail as there was not another trail immediately obvious. But after looking hard at the map, I think the trail that takes off north from the viewpoint is the old road that is used to service the communication tower there. It appears to go all the way down to the historic highway. One could, conceivably, make this a loop but it's much prettier as an out and back, I think. So now we have one more reason to visit again, to see the part of the trail we missed
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I have really been enjoying this site