Yesterday, we celebrated Gail's birthday. She had requested we do a big hike in the Drift Creek Wilderness, a vast area in the Siuslaw National Forest. The trailhead was at 1,450 feet elevation. We hiked down to Drift Creek at 150 feet elevation. We never saw another person from start to finish.
This hemlock sprouted on a decaying log (a nurse log) that is now mostly rotted away.
Fun with the "pano" feature on the iPhone.
On the hike back out up the mountain we had a little excitement. A bear was coming down the trail towards us, about 40 feet away. We raised our voices and the bear disappeared into the vegetation. Then Daisy got it's scent and went totally berserk. She has a real hatred for bears and pulled me like a sled for the next 15 minutes or so. I was worried her collar might break.
We finished our day back home with appetizers, a movie, and dinner from The Drift Inn.
2 comments:
I'm glad it was such a wonderful day. Gail deserves it!! Remember that you still have over a week left in Birthday Month ;)
Here's to another great year!
p.s. Having been to the Drift Inn: I am reading Thomas Wolfe's 'The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test.' it is really a riot, but also sensitive, and stars Kesey. My favorite story is when they go to see the Beatles at the Cow Palace but the Beatles seem to them like "soundtracked vinyl dolls" and Kesey gets so fed up he leaves. But he does not know that his friend, who goes by Zonker, has told about 400 people in the Cow Palace that the Beatles will be going to Kesey's house after the show. So poor, exhausted Kesey drives home, and there are about 200 teenage girls in the front yard and a huge banner that reads, "THE MERRY PRANKSTERS WELCOME THE BEATLES!!" Which Kesey did not make. He is so dang ticked that he just goes to bed and waits for everyone to drift away.
(The Beatles had no knowledge of this until later.)
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