hiking and dancing and other creative ways to make your legs sore

[dr4b]

Today Benoit and I went hiking out past North Bend, at Olallie State Park or whatever. I figured it sounded like a fairly nearby, fairly easy hike. It was neither, but that's okay.

We stopped at Uwajimaya on the way out to get lunch at Thai Spice, which was good, and then rode out I-90 to the park. There was no real ranger station, nor could we find a decent map of the trails, but somehow we figured out how to get to the Twin Falls trail. From the website it had sounded like a pretty easy hike, but it was actually fairly long and had a lot of up and downhill stuff, and took several hours.

The waterfall was pretty neat, though.

After that we came back here, showered and changed, and then went swing dancing!!! Wheeeeeeee. We went to the Century Ballroom, which I had never been to. It is scary and crowded, but overall the crowd seemed pretty good, a lot less like Wightman with all the skeezy old guys but contrariwise, more like everyone was several years younger than us. Benoit made me go dance with a bunch of strangers and so I did, and it was fun, except, like I said, the super-crowded floor made me pretty terrified to really swing or spin out or anything. Still, it was fun, and it is good to get back into the swing of things.

Oh, and I wore a skirt. We even took a picture or two as proof.

I walked back into the apartment dancing around and singing, "I feel sweaty... oh so sweaty... I feel sweaty, and skanky, and gross!"

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[bhudson.livejournal.com]

There are stairs and a lot of heavy trail work to keep the trail from sliding down the hill: it's not flat. As far as we could figure the trail map, there was only one trail far as we could figure the illegible trail map. For the first half-mile or mile, it's right up next to I90 so you get all the road noise; then it dives down into the gorge so that you get to a bridge way high above the falls, and later pops you out onto the streambed well below the falls.