Iron Mountain

Sun, 06 Jul 2008 23:59:59 -800

Eliza, Zak and I decided that we simply had to get out of town to go hiking.
With the Gorge rather exhausted of opportunities, we turned our attention
southwards to Iron Mountain, a shortish hike just off US-20 in the middle
of the Cascades somewhere. It turns out that we chose well--this particular
mountain is well known for its abundance of nearly all the species of
wildflowers that grow in Oregon. As Eliza commented "It's as beautiful as
Dog Mountain, but not as hard!" Well, except for the 2.5 hour drive each
way. :) It looks like there had been a lookout atop the mountain until
quite recently; when we got there it had been torched and smashed, with
someone spray-painting "Thanks, arseholes!" on the foundation. In any case,
one could see quite a few mountains from there--Jefferson, the three tops of
Echo Mountain, and a short one in the southerly distance that we couldn't
identify.