family fun day hikes: Family Day hikes in and around Beaverton, Oregon: Day 1 – Eagle Fern Park (Clackamas, OR)
- 11/06/11 12:37 PM
I’ve decided that it was time to find places to take the family on a daily basis that involved hikes that lasted an hour or two. For a combination of reason, one to just spend time with the family, two to get some exercise and third was to educate our children. (Everything can be a learning opportunity when you home school your kids)
Today was day one and our goal is to try to visit at least 3 parks a week and today visited Eagle Fern Park in Clackamas County near the town of Eagle Creek. To be honest … (10 comments)
Now this wasn’t too difficult of a climb even with a 6 year old and we even saw kids younger than that making this trek. It is a mile to the falls and back and I do have to say well worth the hike, especially if you like to take pictures. If the kids weren’t … (21 comments)
family fun day hikes: Even though we came home early Monday, we went back out yesterday to get more pictures
- 10/06/10 05:17 AM
Yesterday you read about our ventures in camping with our new tent trailer and how my daughter ending up having to go to urgent care. Well, she is on medication now and all is good and so we decided to head back out to the Columbia Gorge, do some more hiking, some geocaching and even a little picture taking.
View up by Ponytail Falls If you are ever in Oregon, I suggest you take the quick drive up the gorge and check out the whole Multnomah Falls area as it has some of the most beautiful hiking trails and … (15 comments)
family fun day hikes: Does Big Foot really exist? Visit Ape Caves and you may get to see Big Foot!
- 09/18/10 10:25 AM
Ape Caves in Washington State, near Mount St. Helens, was formed when Mount St. Helens blew, not in 1980, but a few thousand years earlier and was flowing lava and not ash. The flowing lava, as it cooled, created lava tubes that sat undiscovered for thousands of years. Then in the early 1900s, a family who lived in the area discovered the caves and the boy scouts, who called themselves “The Apes” after the Pacific Northwest most famous “Ape”, Big Foot, ventured in and helped name it. What is amazing, is in these caves, you always have to where a … (19 comments)
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