4.5 miles of hiking • 1000' elevation gain •
Due to a late start and some serious Gorge wind, Elsie and I bailed on plans to do Munra and instead zipped over to Perdition. Everything in the Gorge where there's water is covered in frost or ice - the bridge below Wahkeena Falls was an ice rink, and many portions of the "trail" later had frozen ground and ice baubles hanging from sticks near creeks. As a result, we decided not to continue on and finish the Multnomah-Wahkeena loop since we didn't want to contend with long stretches of ice on the trail near Ecola (neither of us had traction devices), and instead went down the pavement and followed the 400 until we could hop down onto the Old Highway, at which point we semi-jogged back to the Lodge in the dark and caught the 400 back to the car.
JM
January 27, 2014
Hope you're feeling better!