Anthony headed back to CWU today. The Spring quarter starts today, but he doesn't have an in-person class until tomorrow afternoon, so he was able to stay home a little longer, which was awesome!
Doing so allowed him to join Sammy, Timothy, and I on a hike yesterday! We chose to do to the Lyle Cherry Orchard Trail, just down the Gorge a ways on the WA side past Lyle.
We have done a part of this trail multiple times before, and while we didn't do the complete trail this time either, we sure did do substantially more than we have in the past. It has a lot of steep incline parts, but we got through that and made it to the top meadow plateau. We chose to turn back after hanging out at the plateau instead of continuing on due to lack of snacks and water. In truth, we didn't actually know how long the trail actaully was, lol, so we weren't as prepared as we needed to be in order to forge ahead. But we will eventually do the whole thing.
I was excited to see the balsam root flowers out! No lupine yet. In between feeling like my quads were going to catch fire and my lungs burst, I sure did enjoy the views!
