Side stream coming into the Salmon River, at 2.2 miles above the trailhead at the bridge on the Salmon River Road; just below the gate to the Salmon-Huckleberry Wilderness Area.
That’s Rosie announcing the end of the clip.
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Just had to escape the heat again today, & took the dogs up to the Salmon River trail this afternoon - & perhaps just to mark the occasion in a can’t-go-back-now way, took my first trail run of many years. We did ~5 miles round trip, from the bridge crossing on the Salmon River Road to the wilderness area gate & back. I felt pretty good about myself, tho Rosie ran circles around me the whole way. Mollie (my 8 year-old golden) kept looking at me strangely wondering what was up. The river is incredibly full - the heat is resulting in heavy snowmelt. The gauge is out on the Salmon, but the Sandy where it enters is running 5160 cfs. This pic, of the footbridge across a small stream coming in at about the 2.2-mile mark
May 18, 2008 12:12 am - Started a new photo gallery (see the Pages menu), of woodland & subalpine wildflowers of the Cascades - in addition to the existing ones for the Columbia River Gorge & Cascades Alpine Meadows. I'll populate these with photos as I accumulate these on my hikes, as a dated photojournal. Sadly I'll be missing the month of July in Oregon this year (tho not so sadly, I'll be spending it in Slovakia, the Czech Republic & Slovenja ...). May 17, 2008 7:46 pm - Great hike on the Salmon River trail (near Zigzag) today - nice cool air washing down along the stream, nice to get out of the 90+ degrees in town. Molly was as always the best traildog ever, Rosie remained rambunctious after 5 miles, most of it off-leash. Some good wildflower pics - will post soon.
May 6, 2008 10:04 am - added to the Columbia Gorge Wildflowers gallery, Viola glabella (stream violet), Mahonia nervosa (dwarf Oregon grape), Adiantum pedatum (maidenhair fern), and some Trillium ovatum transitioning from white to pink phase May 4, 2008 6:56 pm - Took Molly & Rosie on a 6.5 mile hike in Forest Park today - Rosie started to lag a bit toward the end. A great hiker! Trilliums were a bit past, a lot turning red. Lots of yellow violets (Viola glabella), & the small Oregon Grape (Mahonia nervosa) is in bloom. April 29, 2008 11:58 pm - upgraded to WP 2.5.1 April 27, 2008 8:02 pm - upgraded my Linux box (my old Dell laptop) to Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy Heron today - absolutely painless 2:17 pm - moved the wildflowers gallery to a Page - is working well
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