Sawtooth

We went rock climbing at this neat little spot north of town on Saturday. It was toasty hot!

Skyline Trail

We were sitting around Friday and wondering what to do with ourselves when the thought came to do a night hike. So we did. We headed to the Strawberry Mountain Wilderness and hiked the Skyline Trail and various other trails to make a 15 mile loop. It was 5ish when we started.

We lost the trail a few times... there was still snow on the ground. That's when maps come in handy.

Dinner! Honeymoon cheesy ramen. The wind was howling.

Here's one of the places we lost the trail. We didn't want to cross the massive snowfield up top so we went lower and slipped and slid across the smaller snowfields and scree. When I say slip and slide I mean it too. I slid down one of the snowfields for a while before I could stop myself. My bum got wet.

We saw a mountain goat during one of our bewildered periods. Rory saw it in all its majesty. I saw its rear end. It was an impressive rear end. After wandering around a cliffed mountain side for a while after seeing the goat we did find the trail again. Yay! Rory also scared two ghost dogs away by hissing like a snake. After lots and lots of stumbles and laughter we made it back to the car around 2 am. And then drove home... longest drive of my liiiiife and I wasn't even driving! Now we're feeling sort of zombie-ish but happy and fulfilled. It's nap time.

Man Trip to ski the South Sister in July

Matt, Aaron and I(Rory, this is my first blog post ever) went to the South Sister for some cool weather during this hot time of year. We started at the Green Lakes trail head. 

We decided to go up the day before and camp at Green Lakes .

The trail was gorgeous all the way up to Green Lakes, the river was really pretty. 

The South Sister in all her glory awaiting the mighty conquerors to ski up and then back down. By the way this is like my first real tele-mark experience.

Aaron decided to take a little swim with all of his gear on. When jumping off of the snow drift his skis hit the snow and catapulted him into the river.

Since Emily wasn't here to be the photographer I assumed the role of photographer.

The next morning we got up at 5:00am and left the campsite. As soon as we left it started to rain and rain and rain. We skinned up the side of the mountain except my skins kept coming off of my skis that I borrowed, so I decided to just hike.

Here we are..... but not at the top. After several hours and several thousand feet of climbing we decided the rain, wind and intense cloud cover won the day.  So we decided to come off of the mountain skiing.  Now I've skied before but tele-mark is a lot harder than it looks especially with a large pack on. Needless to say we all made it down in one piece, just a little wet and cold. It was definitely a fun trip.

4th of July

Happy belated fourth everyone! I'm so thankful to be an American. We spent our fourth biking and playing cross country frisbee golf. We also sort of mowed the lawn but I didn't take a picture of that.

In the evening we had the Madsens and the Steineckerts over for a BBQ. Somehow we ended up with no pictures of said Steineckerts but they really were there! Ryan ran all the way around the house before his sparkler went out... unlike Rory who tripped and fell in our not-so-mowed lawn.

Cora loved the treats. I did too.

I'm not too sure what Rory's loving here.

There were loooots of fireworks. It was so nice to have Caleb and Luke take over and do a cool fireworks show for all the adults.

What we did in Bend

We saw a pedal powered pub. Drinking and pedaling is ok!

Visited the farmers market. The strawberries are A-mazing!!!

Check out these 80's climbing shoes! $10 and never been worn. Nice.