Hiking the Great Northwest: #dontfallpumpkin! {Winter Falls}

My beautiful friend Pumpkin (Rebecca...whatever name suits you) and I have been talking about doing a hike together for a few months now, so a very brisk morning we went out to Silver Falls State Park. We left especially early (8am) since I had some other things going on that afternoon. It was quite cold and icy. When we got out of the car at the park it was 28 degrees.

As we trekked down the normal route behind South Falls, we came to the pavement portion. Quickly we realized how the entire slab of pavement was pure ice. Rerouting we turned around and went the way of the Maple Ridge trail instead. And the rest of the trail was relatively normal, still a little slick in areas though. Which coined our theme for the hike, "Don't fall pumpkin!" The most hilarious part though was when we turned around to reroute, there was a lone man hiker just behind us. As we passed him, we let him know how icy it was and that he may want to take the route we were taking. He said thank you, and continued on where he was headed. We turned around and he was crab walking, eh. more like sliding, down the hill, then flipped around on all fours face down, all in an effort to get down this hill. We were dying of laughter.

It was such a joy to spend time with Pumpkin and talk about our lives and our common camp lives and just enjoy the landscape. As cold as it was, it was thoroughly enjoyable.

Date of hike: November 15th, 2014
Distance: 5 Miles (roundtrip)