INTO THE WILD

It's Friday night and the masses have arrived.  I doubt if there are any of the 400 sites vacant tonight. There are lots of kids on bicycles so you have to make sure that your leash is short and listen for the wheels.  I guess that's what you have to expect when you camp in a resort in the middle of summer.

Kathe and Jim went to the Ranger Station this morning to find out about the various trails in the area. They bought a map of the Jeep trails in the area, some of which are actually part of the Barlow Road portion of the Oregon Trail.  They never get tired of that stuff.

One of the hiking trails that the Ranger suggested was right down from road from our campground. Wildwood Recreation Site is a wooded wetland that has trails along the Salmon River. You are allowed to bring doggies on the paved trails, but there have been bears seen in the area.  So they decided not to take me along.  I was okay with that because bears stink anyway.  I remember smelling one at a Thousand Trails Preserve in Oregon a few years ago.  Once was enough!

Later this afternoon Kathe and Jim drove up to the Timberline Lodge on Mount Hood. They were going to take the chairlift up to the top of the mountain, but they arrived too late. They toured the hotel which is being restored to the way it once was when the WPA built it 1937.  It was really a beautiful building. The tourist were all asking for souvenirs from the movie, The Shining, that was filmed at the hotel.