Hiking in the Gorge

The other day we hiked up to Rowena Crest. This is about 10-12 miles from our house and is a great road ride destination. We hiked out to the cliffs with Camden to take in the views. For those of you that don't know - Hood River sits in the Columbia River Gorge on the Eastern edge of the Cascade Mountains. If you go 5 miles west into the Cascades more, the terrain turns very green from all the rain. 5 miles east takes you into more of a desert climate. That is why it looks so brown in some of these pics as we are just East of Hood River in the Gorge.


This is a very scenic overlook for the gorge. Camden walked the entire 1 1/2 miles out to the cliffs - throwing rocks along the way:

He was sooo much fun. Just amazed at all the big birds (we tried to tell him one was a hawk so after that he called every bird a hawk - except it came out "cock". "Where's my cock" and "That's a big cock" kept us in stitches through the whole hike!!!)I don't think there could be anything better in life than days like these with my family. We have so much fun and there is always another adventure waiting around the next corner for us!!
Goodbye for now!!