Hiking at Rowena

On Monday we took advantage of the nice weather and went hiking in the Columbia River Gorge with Joe and Virginia, some long time friends from work. We decided to go to the Tom McCall Preserve at Rowena, which is known for it's beautiful views of the gorge and its plethora of wild flowers in the Spring. It was still early enough in the season that few flowers were up, but the views and landscape were pretty nonetheless. We ended up hiking just over 2 miles and went at a leisurely pace. We stopped for a while near one of the ponds and ate our packed lunch while listening to the sound of croaking frogs and the wind. Looking forward to getting out for some more hikes this spring/ summer (hopefully the Mt. St. Helens rim will be one of the hikes).