Happy New Year! --- Wow, it took me almost four months to get here. Sorry, I’ve been incredibly busy lately and haven’t got time to continue my journal. But here I am, again, this time with a very short post. Not because I don’t have much to say but Angel’s Rest is probably the best known hike in the Gorge. Don’t believe me? Just sit in the parking lot for a couple of hours and you’ll see the parade of hikers coming in and out of the trailhead. One word to clarify here, I’m calling them hikers although not all of them are. Being one of the most accessible hikes in the Gorge we, real hikers (I’m not trying to insult anybody here) often see people that really shouldn’t be hiking here. This day was no exception. January first is still the middle of the winter so you’d expect it to be cold, maybe rainy and/or windy. It was very windy and cold. Still Val and I saw at least a dozen “hikers” wearing sneakers and jeans going up to Angel’s rest. In one of the pictures you’ll notice that the trail is frozen. Although the picture doesn’t give it credit, there were parts were it was just dangerously frozen, to the point that we saw everyone in a group coming down, fall on the same spot. It seems that Val and I were the only ones there with traction devices (thank you micro spikes – best ever) and from the few with trekking poles. Anyway, it was a short hike that we did in a handful of hours just to burn a bit of what we ate the night before. It was a very windy day to the point that we were not able to reach the actual viewpoint in fear of flying of the mountain. Beautiful day and great way to start the year…. Oh, and those pictures were taken with my new camera (I’m still in the process of re-learning with this one)
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