We all woke up when we wanted to. By the time Dan and I emerged from the Cabana and had another hot shower, the others were up and about at camp making a huge brekkie. We did the same out the back of the Astro cooking up an omelette which we followed up with some…

The smoke was slightly less intense this morning but still lingered in the air. It had become so common place that we hardly noticed it anymore. Since we had some bananas going off, it was mandatory that I cooked banana pancakes while Dan made us coffee and hot chocolate. Today we planned to repeat the…

I’d dreamt all night about a bright red bike, so much so that when I woke I thought that the new Giant must be the bike for me. The smoke in the forest was thick now and the chairs we’d left outside were covered in a thin layer of ash. This was a lot worse…

Cleo woke me gently this morning, sitting by the edge of the bed and putting one paw up near my face to ask if she could come cuddle. I obliged and the three of us lay in bed a while just snoozing, Cleo with her head buried in my chest. We stayed this way for…

Determined not to have another super lazy start, I floated the idea of a jail workout before breakfast. Dan was in and so we very carefully picked a playlist before getting out of the Cabana. It was cold but there was a sun patch within camp that made everything ok. We had a good little…

Thanks to a bad dream, I was up and out of bed as soon as I woke and left the Cabana to a beautiful view of mist coming through the trees. Dan followed me out and made us a coffee and hot chocolate to take down to the beach for a stroll. It was a…

It’s hard to believe just how lazy we were this morning. The forest was letting slithers of light in through the canopy, but it was still so nice and warm under the covers that we couldn’t convince ourselves to get up. The exception was when Dan made it from the bed to the kitchen to…

Just as we went to sleep to the sound of rain, we woke up to it as well. Like the rookies we are, we’d left our chairs outside and they were inevitably soaked along with the rest of the forest. At 8am, I was up and awake so I sat in bed blogging while Dan…

We didn’t muck around this morning, but we didn’t rush it either. Despite our excitement to eat dinner’s left overs in burrito form for breakfast, it was warm so we opted for cereal. I only sat down for a minute before I packed a bag for our six mile round trip to the highest point…

We planned to hike to the highest point you can get to on Mount Hood today but it was only a 6 mile return trip so we were in no rush. After 9am came and went, we emerged from the Cabana and dealt with going to the bathroom in this camp that had no privacy…