When I was about 5 my parents purchased a half built cabin on Mt. Hood with several other people. My memories of the cabin are many and varied from growing up; standing around the woodstove freezing and waiting to warm up in the winter mornings, the sound of ski boots going up and down stairs and through the mud room, using the couch cushions to make a fort. In the early days there was no phone, no tv, and no central heating. There was, however, a woodstove that was fantastic for throwing snow on and watching it sizzle, as long as my dad didn't notice. There was also a bumper pool table (small round table with obstacles for the balls to go around) along with a regular pool table downstairs surrounded by stools that twisted around 360 degrees. On a side not, I have never seen a bumper pool table anywhere since then, ever. Perhaps that was one of a kind? In the summer there was Trillium Lake, Alpine Slide, Kahneeta, and best of all The Big Rock, which was located in the forest a short walk from the cabin. Someone at some point tied a cable to a tree growing out of the top so you could climb to the top and then repel down. I'm not kidding when I call it big, it has to be at least 15 feet tall.
Recently we took the kids up for their first trip to the cabin. I explained it all to them before and then everyday they would wake up and ask if today we were going "to the big tall mountain?" It is always a surreal experience to take my children to do things I did as a kid. It's odd to put my kids to bed in a room a slept in that still smells the same as it did 25 years ago (not a bad smell, just a smell). We went to The Huckleberry Inn where you can still get fresh maple bars that are 8 inches long even if mean old Edna who always yelled at everyone doesn't work there anymore.
We took the chairlift to do the alpine slide and see snow and ratty teenage snowboarders.
A snowman built in June...what could be better?
Behold, the Alpine Slide. A must-do event for everyone.
And here we are at Trillium Lake.
That's all folks.
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I loved these pictures of your trip...but what I really want to tell you is I just got done laughing 'til I cried over cakewrecks. Did you find the "Happy Falker Satherhood" post? Or the Amber posts? Or the lead singer of Panic at the Disco! post? I seriously couldn't stop laughing.
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