Let me flash back to 2012- My friends (Kylie and Cheryl) and I were in Denali National Park (so beautiful btw), and my friend Cheryl (who is an avid hiker) takes my friend Kylie and I on this "hike".
Flash to me crying on top of this mountain having an epiphany that I don't like hiking and that's okay!
Now that I live in Oregon and suffer through actual "Winter", I just can't wait to be outside when the weather is nice! When I moved here, my dad gave me a book called Creaky Knees Hiking. I haven't picked it up for the nearly 2 years that I have lived here. But, recently I have just had an aching to start hiking!
I talked some friends of mine into going on a hike with me last Saturday (it wasn't too hard to get these adventurous girls out with me!).
Turns out, I think we took the wrong trail head.
I promised the girls a rather flat hike: The Gorge Trail 400, Eagle Creek to Bridge of the Gods.
The trail we were on was not.
I know we were definitely on the wrong trail because we were going away from the bridge ha!
The girls kept calling it "Katie's Death Hike".
It was such a great day even though I definitely didn't wear clothes that were warm enough lesson learned! We had 3 pups with us (one day I will have a dog that hikes!), and we got a great view of the Bonneville Dam.
But, you want to know what?
I had so much fun! I can't wait to do more...and ones that are challenging at that!
I will be a hiker yet!
What are your favorite things to do to get outside?
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