I snapped this out of the car window on our way from Silver Falls State Park today. There were so many fields like this where the tree farm landscape looked like it was being flooded with yellow wildflowers…it felt like you could SEE them growing up and around the Christmas…
2 CommentsTag: Silver Falls State Park
Our short visit here at Silver Falls State Park has been so nice! We'll be working right here this morning until we check out and head home for a few days. We've got 4 bars of strong AT&T, and no Verizon, for those of you curious about that. The closest…
Comments closed
Okay so when we were on our way through Silverton, we stopped at a liquor store to pick up some Aperol for making some spritzes at the campground. (They didn't even know what Aperol was, so it was a bust, but anyway.) The liquor store was next door to a…
1 Comment
Yesterday we said goodbye to Aluminarium over at Stub Stewart and headed to Silver Falls State Park for two nights, where we met up with more Airstream friends: the Hardersen family (Pete, Kathy, their son, his girlfriend, and two family friends). This is exactly what it's like here: Last night's…
3 Comments
It rained and rained and rained all night, and this morning as we started our Monday workday in the Airstream, surprise! It was raining. We'd talked about doing a slightly abbreviated version of yesterday's hike today if there was a break in the weather, but we decided we still wanted…
Comments closed
This morning we woke up to a tiny bit of sun and blue sky (!!!!). We decided it WAS the day to do the Trail of Ten Falls hike after all. Just as we were dressed, breakfasted, hand-on-the-door-handle ready to go…guess what? It started raining. Oh well. Onward! What's a…
7 Comments
Yesterday (during the only, very short break in the rain) we hiked from our campsite over to South Falls. Still beautiful. We went into town (Silverton) last night and had a little Valentine's Day dinner at the Silver Grille. It was quite nice. They did a several course prix fixe…
3 Comments
We're at Silver Falls State Park this week (working, hiking, etc.) and late this afternoon we hiked from our campsite up to Winter Falls and back (about 5 miles). The thing about this particular hike is that (1) we mainly took the bike path (along with a bit of the…
3 Comments
Our next stop will be hiking the waterfalls at Silver Falls State Park. The last time we were there it looked like this: It was actually quite lovely and we had fun cooking BBQ in the snow. I'm hoping for some hiking weather this time though, so we can do…
4 Comments