Girls Gone Wildwood

For our day-off run in April, we decided to run Angel's Rest in the Columbia River Gorge. It was a lovely day, with views you don't often get to see this time of year. We ran into several patches of snow, but also wildflowers beginning to peek through the early spring mud and moss. The waterfalls were full and majestic, and Cedar enjoyed himself immensely (as he always does!).  Once past Angel's Rest, we headed toward Multnomah Falls, cutting down from the top on the main, paved tourist trail. We used the old highway to connect back up to the trails and made a figure eight back to Angel's Rest, where we retraced out steps. See my Strava map here . It was great to be out on a sunny, early spring day and get some good elevation in!

After spending more than a week in Germany, running everyday, and standing all day long at a conference, Ann returned home with pain in her left knee. I had spent the previous weekend in Indiana, without a long run, and was still battling an awful chest cold after two weeks. It was time for an (for me, yet another) "easy" long run. We needed time together, on the trails, but low on the climbing, downhill, and directions/turns. I dug this one up from the archives, and we didn't push ourselves on the hills. And we saw the first trillium of the year! Holman - ww: .76 ww - alder: 3.5 alder - leif: .84 leif - maple: 2.7 maple - leif : 2.73 leif - saltzman : .23 saltzman - ww: .50 ww - holman : 10 holman - 53rd : .76  total: 22.02