We have not been to Sisters in a while so with a nice spring day in front of us, we headed over there in the morning. I wanted to find this lava tube cave just out of Sisters back in on some fire roads. It turned out to be a little harder than expected to find it. After about 4 missed turns we finally found it. While trying to find it however we drove on some beatiful back country roads. The picture you see above is Hunter Noah and Abbie with Mt Washington in the backdrop.
This cave has some skylights in it a ways back in that give you some interesting light beams. Due to my bad navigation we were a little later getting there than I wanted so there was only a partial beam coming through one of the skylights but the kids still thought it was way cool. Once back on the surface we hunted along the ground until we could find the holes from the top. After the cave we headed back into Sisters, had a picnic lunch there, grabbed a coffee at Sisters Coffee house and headed back home mid afternoon.
The week was screen free week (no electronics or TV). Our kids' school had activities organized during the week culminating with a Friday night hike. See if you can pick out Kelly and kids. They are on the left side of the picture.
While Bachelor usually stays open until the memorial day weekend, it will likely melt out at the bottom before that point this year due to the lack of snow. It was very thin near the bottom today, but up high it was great so we spent out last day out near the top of the mountain. Really nice and warm today making the snow super soft. We had a great day and a pre-celebration of Hunter turning double digit birthday tomorrow.
Some Video footage from today:
This past weekend, I climbed Mt Hood - Oregon's highest mountain, with a couple of friends from work - Matt H, and Zak C. Last time I was up it was 2011 also with Matt H about a month later in May of that year. The weather this time was spectacular, however with the low snow year, the climbing was much more difficult. We left Bend about 12:30 AM friday night, and left the parking lot at Mt hood at 3 am. We hit the summit in 5 hours around 8 am. We were back down by 11:30 for lunch at the lodge before driving home.
In the pictures, if its not obvious, I am in the red jacket (blue in one sitting), Zak has the green jacket and Matt has the brown jacket. Notice in some of the pictures how blue the sky is. No camera filter - just shot with my iphone.
