Table Mountain, June 14, Garden Party

We planned to backpack Eagle Creek last weekend, but a forecast for thunderstorms Saturday night in the Gorge prompted us to alter our agenda. Instead, we got up early Sunday and headed for Washington's Table Mountain. We hiked part of the trail last year during a rainstorm, but most of the adventure was all new. It's a beautiful route from Bonneville Hot Springs through the forest.
After a while, you reach the Pacific Crest Trail. Then you hang a right at Heartbreak Ridge Trail and head up, up, UP! It was just .6 miles, but it might have been the steepest trail we've ever hiked (aside from mountain climbing)! We were under a deadline to get home, so we made the next viewpoint our turn-around spot. We're anxious to get back out there and finish what we started.

We forgot to take pictures are the top, so we snapped a "summit" shot when we got back down to the PCT:

We had to get home in time because Sunday night is Garden Party night at Michael and Kendra's farm in Newberg. Everything's in the ground. Now we just tend to the little plants until they become dinner!
Lettuce, anyone?
Thinning the carrots:
:)