We did it. We did it. We didn’t think we could but we did it!!
16 miles, lots of rain, lots of up. We hauled our buts up to the 7.5 mile campsite on Eagle Creek.
We walked Tunnel Falls. I’ll post a video.
Then we camped, Christine discovered she had no tent poles, Eep 
So we get all settled in and it is just about to get dark – and the first raindrops fall.
Did I mention it takes some practice to get the rain tarp on the hammock set up just right?
So Christine ended up camped under my hammock to get out of the rain, it was about 20 degrees colder than it was supposed to be, and it rained off and on all night.
So we were up quite early and booking it back toward the car at double time.
I slipped into the creek up to my knees. Thank goodness for the emergency back up pair of wool socks or I would have been squelching all the way to the car!
I am glad we were up early – as we got closer to the car the crowds were just getting started. I can see why the experience hikers all say to hike Eagle Creek in the winter. The easy grade and gazillion waterfalls make Eagle Creek a summer super highway.
Sunday April 29th Christine and I hiked Starvation Creek up to the Hole in the Wall Falls. It was so lovely. There we lots of amazing flowers with very short bloom windows so I took a ton of photos. I took so many photos I ran out of battery just after the halfway point of the hike. I was bummed as I had left the spare battery in my other pack.
We got back to the car and I took the camera off of the chest strap on the backpack and placed it on the hood of the car *insert drums of doom here* and opened up the trunk to get place the pack in the car and get out the spare battery. What followed in my head was this sequence: I put the pack in the trunk, got out the battery then walked around the car and grabbed the poles from where they were leaning next to the camera. I placed the poles in the car and Christine placed her things in the car. I closed the trunk and got into the car. I realized I did not have the camera or the cell phone – oops. I hop out of the seat and go back to the trunk – grab the cell phone – hmmm no camera. *hear that drum?*
I check the roof of the car – no camera, inside my brain a little voice says. “I must have tossed it in the back seat. I’ll just put the battery in when we get to the next stop.” *ta-dum ta-dum ta-dum*I close the trunk and get in the car and off we go to our next hike destination.
Sigh. Needless to say what happened in my head was not what happened in the real world. Now the camera is gone and I have lost all of those beautiful flower pictures. I am very sad. I loved my camera very very much and I feel just really stooopid to have lost it in such a totally avoidable way.
I take strattera for my ADHD, it generally really helps me maintain strength of focus and follow through. Sigh – I guess it just did not work on Sunday. Corey says that I really have to accept that I do the “I must have” whenever I get confused about a sequence of event; and that I really should just stop and redo the actions rather then assume that I did anything at all.
So goodbye really really nice Olympus Stylus 800 camera. 
I loved you and I will miss you very much. You took really amazing macro shots and travelled well. You were shockproof and all-weather (which was awesome cause I took you out in the rain all the time). I especially loved your large lcd screen – no more squinting in a tiny eye hole!
