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We started out for a light 2.2 mile hike…

 

We are going to hike up to Fairy Falls.

 

It is about 10:45 in the morning.

 

Everything is so quiet, grey and soft.

 

It is a pretty quick climb up the paved path to the first fall.

 

Even though it is late Fall it is very very green and very very wet.

 

The fog is so thick.

 

Waiting for me at the switchback.

 

But I am busy.

 

Taking pictures of Mr. Slug

 

… and the posse centipede.

 

 

 

 

I love my new camera!

 

 

We are about to run out of pavemant.

 

 

I will never escape the mushrooms…….

 

 

Chris in a Crack.

 

This was the prettiest tree.

 

 

 

At the first summit.  We saw god. Not sure if it was the hour of up or a true religous experience.  I am sure it was a beautiful gift worth every sore muscle.

 

 

No, we did not eat any mushrooms.

 

Look, the timer works!

 

It was like watching the rest of the world disappear.

 

 

 

Matthew taught me how to photograph a spiderweb.

 

 

 

 

Ok ok…Fairy Falls….with….

 

It was sooooo pretty.

 

 

 

 

 

So we kept going, at this point we thought we had as far to go as we had already climbed.

 

Here is where we would have lost Corey.

 

 

Matthew chasing the light.

 

Look, I found some light too!

 

 

 

 

We have not seen other people for a while at this point.

 

Christine communes with the tree.  It is a quiet conversation.

 

Look… we found the sun.

 

 

The biggest mushroom I have ever seen.

 

 

 

We have been going up for a very long time. Everything hurts.

 

A baby tree in a nursery tree.

 

 

 

The sap is so pretty.

 

Now we discover we have doubled our distance and the end is no closer.

*whimper*

 

 

 

Look…more waterfalls.

 

 

 

 

These are the higher falls above Multnohmah Falls.

 

LAND!!!!!  We have been way beyond where the sidewalk ends.

 

The basin above the Falls.

 

 

The view from the very tippy top.

 

Where is all begins.

 

 

 

 

We made it.  Well Matthew ran and got the car for us

             

 

Like any endeavor ever undertaken by me at least this one is taking more time that I estimated.  You would think I might learn to multiply my estimate by 3 before I really take on any activity   Yesterday I sorted through about 500 pictures that have been waiting so patiently on my computer to be shared with everyone.

Today I fixed the fatal error I was getting with the single entry and now I am learning how to add pages so that I can have a portfolio page for all of the pictures or maybe a hiking page so I can link all of the hikes in one place and then another pictures page….

I just need to add a page successfully first

                

I tend to be a person who does not embrace new things or changes without some consideration.  I know myself well enough to know how easily I succumb to the “oooohhhh” factor so I try not to jump every time something triggers it.

I did not want to blog for the sake of blogging, I did want to share my life with family and friends.  I did not want a blog that was going to gather more dust then the knick knacks on my shelf and I did not want a place where I talked about nonsense just to fill space.

So The LAPD is born. The League of Athletic Phat Dykes starts with me.  I’m a fat person and I am not always happy with that.  I don’t want being fat to be a reason why I do not live my life the way I want to live it.  I love being physical and I love being outdoors but for years I have allowed fatness to keep me from doing things like hiking, playing sports or horseback riding; any activity really where being fat embarassed me to the point that I did not want other people to see me doing it no matter how much happiness the activity could give me.

So I am out there in the world and I figure there are others like me who might join up too and then this space will become less about me and my own issues and life and more about our lives and shared fun and living life fully and with joy.

One phat dyke taking on the world with the occasional visits from her anything but narrow friends.