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25 miles of hiking • 5000' elevation gain •

Met Mayhem, again, sigh, at the Multnomah Falls Lodge HWY 30 parking lot at about 6:12 am. He had to go potty really bad, #2, so he was a bit late meeting up with me as he was busy trying to find a open toidy. I guess he found one down at the Ainsworth CG.

Hit up the Wakkeena return trail from the lodge area to get started.

Filled up a water bottle at the Wahkeena Spring, yummy good water only flows from this spring.

Hoofed it up/over to Angels Rest and got some pretty nice scenic shots.

Used a Devils Rest feeder trail to hit a junction of the Foxglove to head up to Devils Rest. Glad I had a track, there's a lot of Foxglove related junctions to use! Met some other hikers using this trail that recognized Mayhem and me from Portland Hikers 'blog' posts they said. Nice seeing you guys! :)

For the Larch MT. section we used a bit of the official 420C trail to hit that super short section of trail that leads to Multnomah Basin Rd.. Continued up this way past below Devils Rest to make the junction with road 1520, which I think is Palmer Mill road? Hiked on this nice road for almost 2 miles and cut across to save a bit of time to hit up with Larch MT. Road. Using a track from Don to cut across and we found a steel cable in the ground, thanks again for the track Don! :)

Walked almost another 2 miles up Larch MT. Road to hit FR 315 that connects into trail 441 for the final Larch MT. ascent.

Way more peeps up there on this hike, last weekend 0! Mayhem helped out a lot of folks with group picture taking and we met some nice recently transplanted DC'ers who can't wait to get into all the awesome hiking and outdoor activities the Pac NW has to offer!

Continuing on we used 424, Oneonta Trail to get down to the Franklin Ridge trail to get to the best part of the day - Nesika Lodge work party day! Also met more PDX Hikers that recognized us, Mr. Peabody and his wife.

First we took in the awesome views from Waespe Point then headed over down into the wonderful Nesika Lodge area and met some nice folks working on the grounds. Others were working on residing the Women's 'dorm', finally getting the 4th side done! Had noticed the last few times during the years of being up there they have been slowly residing it and the gentleman explained they got a side done each year during the work parties.

We were invited inside for jelly donuts, cakes and candies and a tour. Sadly, they were joking about all the goodies but we got the tour and a few chocolates! Thanks TCO! :)

Filled up another water bottle from their spring water fountain and hit the trails for the final descent down to MFL and the hordes.

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