Tillamook Head is just south of Seaside, due west of Portland, on the Oregon coast. Our hike yesterday, here, and by the numbers: Four miles RT (to the top and back) took us three hours, with over 1000′ of elevation gain. The trail was very steep and hella muddy, with lotsa primeval-looking ferns and ginormous root balls sticking up from fallen old growth trees. I Googled it, and it says some of these Sitka Spruce are over 800 years old. For those of you keeping score at home, that means they were saplings long before Gwyneth Paltrow and Joseph Fiennes made Shakespeare in Love. 😉
All this and some way-overpriced beach-front real estate: Who could ask for anything more? On a cool mid-April Sunday that threatened rain early but turned out sunny, the hike itself was definitely worth the price of admission. Thanks for the tour, Ben. I fear our muddy sneakers will never be the same.
Do you have a picture of Rachel doing the Pose”? Or one of yourself?
Not offhand I don’t. But this is a great idea for a future post: Photos of all of us doing “The Pose,” titled “The Family That Poses Together, BLANKS Together…” Just need a rhyme for “Pose.” Thanks Axel!