SILVER FALLS

March 20, 2004


PREVIOUS SILVER FALLS HIKES Silver Falls CFHC 2003 Hike #6 Silver Falls CFHC 2003 Hike #17 Dotti and I chose the day of the Spring Equinox of 2004 to do our first CFHC hike, meaning that daylight would be visible for 12 hours all over the world, and therefore, day and night would be exactly equal in length. But that is not why we chose this day. It was a day with great weather for a hike, and we were ready to do some walking. We started off from the parking lot around noon, and finished up sometime after 3PM. We caught them in the middle of some renovations, and also with a segment of the Canyon Trail closed due to a trail event that they had not been able to recover from yet. They didn’t say what the problem was, but it was probably a landslide across the path. The temperature held pretty steady in the low 60s for our entire hike. The sun didn’t really warm us up much, and the clouds did little to cool us off. I didn’t bother with a jacket this time, and Dotti had a heavy shirt that she had on at the start of the hike, but she removed before we had gone very far.