Mt Hood Oregon

 We ended up in a town called White Salmon on the Washington side of the river with spectacular views of Mt Hood and really cute salmon crossing road markings in lieu of zebra ones. Mt Hood is Oregon's highest peak at 11,240 feet but has Mt Adam, even taller in its landscape. Oscar has skied Mt Hood which you can do year- round although there's not much snow up there at the moment. Like other states on the West, Oregon is very dry, California in drought.

We started the next day with an unusual breakfast, we must stop ordering eggs on toast as it has caused much confusion and some interesting looking dishes, I assume the way we eat that dish comes to us from England not the USA? Our route took us on a road that loops Mt Hood, and with each turn I was drawn to take another photo. We decided not to stop in at Timberline lodge which is where they shot The Shining just in case Johnny's still there but travelled on to a little town to base ourselves to do some hiking. We had a great hike this afternoon along a stream in the bush, forest, woods, what is it called here? It was a little longer than expected thanks to me being in charge of navigating and a km/mile issue with my Garmin so no wonder Ruby had started to tire at what was 6 miles not 6 kms. You all know my directional and spacial issues, don't ever ask me for directions or believe how far I say something is. Miles or kilometres, it didn't deter us, the trail was so pretty beside a crystal clear stream, only very occasionally crossing paths with other hikers, the setting could have been straight out of a chapter of Tolkien.

Those gymnastics classes kept her feet dry several times today