Mount Hood Revisited

So Jeff and I decided when we were at Mt. Hood with the Amazing Lady the week before last that we needed to go back and hike on some of the trails. Today was perfect weather for it, so we did.

We tried to hike the Zig Zag Canyon Overlook trail, but it seemed to be MIA. Either that or we just couldn't find the darn thing. And after hiking up a really, really big hill (otherwise known as the side of Mt. Hood) I wasn't willing to walk back up that really, really big hill (aka the side of Mt. Hood). Especially since it was pretty warm out. We did get a couple pictures of Mt. Hood above the treeline which was cool. And we also saw snow which made me happy (it was closer than on Mt. Hood, we had to step over a patch).


Here's a view from above the Timberline Lodge. The mountain that you can faintly see is Mount Jefferson. No, it's not named after Jeff even though people call him Jefferson. But we like to pretend that it is.


We drove back down and did the Mirror Lake Hike which was very pretty. It was a much cooler hike and had some beautiful foliage. Mirror Lake isn't nearly as cool as Trillium Lake for reflecting Mt. Hood purposes, but it was pretty good. Here's me on the way with some pretty trees.


Here's Jeff at Mirror Lake with Mount Hood reflecting nicely in the water.

And here's a craggly cliffy thing that looks way cooler reflecting than any of the pictures we got of Mt. Hood reflecting. Really, Trillium Lake seems to be the best for that.

On our way home we found a BBQ place and man did that hit the spot. It's been a long while since we've had real BBQ. It just didn't seem to exist in Boston. The last good BBQ we had was in Ames at Bufford's. And before that it would have been in Ames at Hickory Park. Oh how I love Hickory Park. Their BBQ is great and their dessert menu? Well let's just say that it's an entire placemat. And it's aaaaallllll ice cream. How can you go wrong with that?