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Dog Mountain was the hike for our sunny Saturday. Christine, Brad, Steve, Karen, Sean, Eddie and I joined about a million other people on the popular Gorge trail near Stevenson, Wash. It was a great workout with a terrific payoff at the top: views of Hood, St. Helens, Adams and up and down the Gorge. Oh, and don't forget those wildflowers! Have you seen "The Sound of Music"? Well, the hills were alive with flowers!

Despite the warm sun, it was really windy at the top. Good thing Brad keeps a king-sized wool blanket in his training pack!
Afterward Brad's mom, Donna, had dinner ready to celebrate birthdays for Steve and me. She made this awesome birthday cake of the whole family on a campout, sleeping around the fire pit :)