Sunday, July 22, 2007

Columbia River Gorge - Upper Ponytail Falls

Ryan has been very busy at work the past few weeks, but he finally had a day off so we headed up the Gorge for a hike. This was the first time we had been hiking with Norah on foot, near steep drops. Don't let this picture fool you, Norah only walked up about a third of the trail. I carried her the rest of the way up (nice workout), but Ryan had the foresight to bring the frontpack, so we switched up on the way down - Emerson with me in the frontpack and Norah with Ryan in the backpack. She was MUCH happier.

Emerson stayed awake for the entire hike!
Ryan and Norah, climbing down to explore the waterfall.
Happy to be out of the backpack
It looks like Ryan is throwing Norah in the waterfall...

2 comments:

Grammie Cakes said...

Looks like fun to me

Brian and Schabahn said...

Ahh, what a picture perfect family day. Wish we could have tagged along, it looks like a beautiful hike! Hard to beat the Gorge!