My dad used to always call me "Coyote Girl" when I was growing up...
Man it feels good to be a Portlander. It's only 2pm and I've already spent several hours outside hiking in the Columbia River Gorge and eating pizza and drinking beer at Double Mountain Brewery in Hood River. The day started out with wet ground and a very slight misty drizzle outside early this morning, leaving me a little skeptical about the day's weather and our hiking adventure... But, before we even got to Hood River the skies had parted and it was nothing but blue skies and sunshine. Beautiful!
We hiked Coyote Wall (appropriate given the childhood nickname!), on the Washington side just past Hood River, Oregon, and it was beautiful! The contrast of the golden grass on the ground the the blue skies was quite a sight, mixed in with all the little lizards and oak trees with their filberts on the ground. The trail winds around the mountainside in a gradual ascent until it comes to a high point, not long before you start the descent--but not before you reach Coyote Wall, a high cliff of basalt columns that would certainly lead to one's death should you somehow make it over the edge. The trail gets decent mountain biker use, and apparently a guy rode off the wall recently to his unfortunate death. Don't mess with sky-high basalt column cliffs!
Nothing tops off a nice early morning hike in the sunshine like a Hop Lava IPA and wood oven pizza... Perfection!
Man it feels good to be a Portlander. It's only 2pm and I've already spent several hours outside hiking in the Columbia River Gorge and eating pizza and drinking beer at Double Mountain Brewery in Hood River. The day started out with wet ground and a very slight misty drizzle outside early this morning, leaving me a little skeptical about the day's weather and our hiking adventure... But, before we even got to Hood River the skies had parted and it was nothing but blue skies and sunshine. Beautiful!
We hiked Coyote Wall (appropriate given the childhood nickname!), on the Washington side just past Hood River, Oregon, and it was beautiful! The contrast of the golden grass on the ground the the blue skies was quite a sight, mixed in with all the little lizards and oak trees with their filberts on the ground. The trail winds around the mountainside in a gradual ascent until it comes to a high point, not long before you start the descent--but not before you reach Coyote Wall, a high cliff of basalt columns that would certainly lead to one's death should you somehow make it over the edge. The trail gets decent mountain biker use, and apparently a guy rode off the wall recently to his unfortunate death. Don't mess with sky-high basalt column cliffs!
Nothing tops off a nice early morning hike in the sunshine like a Hop Lava IPA and wood oven pizza... Perfection!
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