10/24/08
The plan today was pretty simple. Head to Estacada for a round of disc golf at Milo McIver State Park, then proceed southeast to Bagby Hot Springs for a soak.
I generally don’t enjoy paying for disc golf, but this park had good reviews and when I got there, I found that there was an machine taking the money, so I dumped a couple of rolls of nickles in and was on my way. It was an impressive course. Lot’s of big trees and elevation changes.
Having finished the 18 holes in impressive fashion, I felt very deserving of a visit to the hot springs. Bagby is a natural hot spring that is sourced from mineral rich water reaching up to 136 degrees at the sorce. It is located well into Mt. Hood National Forest, so I mapped out the directions and headed out.
The directions seemed simple enough and yet somewhere along the way, I must have missed a turn because before I knew it, I was in Detroit. Oregon that is…
After a quick fill up and remapping of directions, I headed back into the woods to give it another shot. What I didn’t realize was how close to sunset it was. Within no time, I found myself driving on dark, unlit, pot holed heavy dirt roads so narrow that the brush was scraping at both sides of the VW. Most of what I saw before I gave up for the night and turned back to detroit looked like this:
Maybe I should have asked for directions...
Tired, dejected, and starting to smell a little, I headed back to Detroit, still trying to figure out if I would make another attempt tomorrow.
October 3, 2009 at 6:05 am |
Which reminds me, did you ever get to Ferndale, Washington?
October 3, 2009 at 11:00 am |
I thought it was Ferndale, CA?