Pauline and I decided at the last moment to go for a day hike so we decided to go to Silver Falls State Park since we have seen so many people post pictures of the park, we wanted to see the Fall colors.
So we left home around 9am and arrived 11am area and hiked the circle which is about 6 miles and took us just under 3 hours to hike.
http://www.nwhiker.com/SilverCreekHike.html
As we headed to the trailhead about 50′ from the bathrooms we was talking and getting snack food when I looked up and saw 2 deer staring at us in the bushes not 4 feet away… I just grabbed Pauline since she was digging in her bag as we walked and pointed. The deer were pretty small, I got some video of them, but have no idea what is actually seen yet as I am capturing the video now.
Overall this was a pretty easy hike, it rained for the first hour and we found out the hard way our jackets and back packs are not nearly as water resistant as we thought, lucky for me my iPhone still works, it was pretty damp. I had a small water proof box that i point important things in like batteries, and other less than $40 total items. iPhone cost what… $400?
It was great having the tails to ourselves for the most part, we ran into 6 or so people early into the hike and didn’t see any other human for 5 miles. The elevation change wasn’t too much but it did make us breath hard a few times. The weather was almost perfect, wet as hell at first but some sun at the end and we didn’t over heat or get chilled. I look forward to going back to this park, I will be taking my parents here since this trail was pretty easy to do.
Video whenever I get around to it…
- Mood:
accomplished
grateful