Bagby Hot Spring

Today we went to Baby Hot Spring. We left at 8:30am to get there early. Bagby is in the Mount Hood national forest. The drive there was fantastic. We went along the Clackamas river and saw great mountain and river views. We got there around 10:30am and got started on the hike to the hot spring.
The bridge at the trail head.

Michelle
Another cool foot bridge.

Ahhh!!! The pay off. We got there around 11 and got us a private tub and cubby, yeah! This place is really busy in the summer, that's why we wanted to get here early. This is a long log tub, it's really awesome. The tub is about 10-12 feet long. I want one at home.

Here is the water system. The hot water comes from the spring and you just have to plug the drain hole and then pull the stick that plug the in coming hot water. I had to get 4 buckets of cold water to mix with the hot water.
We're done at noon. You can see a few people at the waiting area. This hut has 5 private cubby and a public area. The public area has a big round tub (5 people) and 3 log tubs (2 people.) This hot spring is clothing optional so that's why we wanted to get a private cubby. Of course the public area only had guys. We stopped at Safeway to get some granola bars when we left earlier.

Here is the hot spring. You can see it go from the spring down to a wooden aquaduct to the tubs.

big log

Refreshed and it's time to go - 1.5 miles hike back to the car.


All in all a great trip.

Random Portland pictures

Hi Everyone,
Here are some random pictures from the last few weeks.
A big warehouse fire across the river from our condo.


Swifts nested in the chimney. There were thousands of little swifts, birds, that are nesting in this chimney on the way down south. I couldn't take a good picture since it was getting dark and the birds were small. It was still really cool, there were 2 falcons hanging around hoping to get a snack. There were so many little swifts, they were able to chase the falcons away. Twenty thousand? I don't know, there were so many. The falcon waited until most of the swifts went inside then pounced. Yeah, he got himself a snack. It was really fun to see the swirling cloud of birds.

Oaks bottom wildlife refuge. This is right across the river from our condo. Nice trail close to the city. This tree is hollow, but still living. pretty neat.

This is a wetland and there are heron and ducks hanging out here. The heron is in the middle of the water on a little log.


An Eagle nest on Ross Island.

Cityscape - a time base art. This is actually some kind of modern dance performance. It was free and right next to our condo so we went. I don't get modern dance though. They went from Keller to Petty Grove to Lovejoy and finally to the source fountain. They did a performance at each fountain, but we only went to 2.
Indian drum at the Pioneer square yesterday.

Next post coming really soon. :)

It's September in Portland and the weather has been really nice. It's been about 70-75 degrees and sunny, but we're losing sun light now. Things are going well in general, but I'm not ready for Winter yet...

Free Symphony at the Waterfront Park.
Swan Lake was a nice bonus. We were in the back side of the stage though so we got to see a lot of the backside of this dude. I don't think he's wearing underwear.



Portland Symphony. The last number was 1812 overture with canon and fireworks! yea!

Michelle took me to the Oregon Historical Society museum.
The special show is Michael Curry's puppets. He's the one that did Lion King and Circus du Soleil puppets. Here is Michelle with a Seal.
Arhhhh!!! help!!! I just watched JAWS the other day. heh heh..
dragon
Dios de la muertos puppets. You can pull on the strings to make the arms and legs move. pretty cool.
That's all folks. We got a new Weber BBQ grill and some closet shelves. I'll take some pictures and post them next time.