After enjoying the view of the Gorge on such a clear beautiful day we decided to head back down the hill. I’m not sure if you can see it, but look for the very light rocky ledge towards the center of the picture. That’s what we had to get around to hit the trail back down. Dave did fine. I had to force myself to think about flat places.
Our 2nd cache took us to a nice park with access to Hood River. Supposed to be a great place to catch trout. We only had to walk 5 minutes down the trail to find the goodies. This was our view just 5 feet from us.
The notes for the cache mentioned that the rocks on the trail could be slippery if wet. Not wet. No problem. However, when Dave decided to see how cold the water was, he had a problem. He put one foot on a rock in the river and was immediately half submerged in the water—his entire left side and then some. His foot slipped on moss on the rock, and he wound up with moss all over his jeans and shirt. Although his knee and palm were bruised, he was pretty much OK after shaking off the shock of it all. Thank goodness the GPS unit is waterproof because it was totally submerged as it hung from his neck. Got lucky in that his PDA/phone was on the hip that did not try to go swimming. You can tell Dave was able to laugh about it all as this was a posed picture to capture the memory of his misadventure.
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