hooray for camping

yay camping!

we ditched the city and went to ainsworth state park out in the columbia gorge for the weekend. unlike our last camping trip back on memorial day weekend, the weather was fabulous. we managed to get a site without much trouble, and spent the whole weekend going to benson, hartman ponds, the sandy river, and hiking around at angel's rest. the waterfalls were pretty crowded and i've seen them a million times so we didn't really get too involved in that this time around. the campground was nice and quiet (except when the union pacific trains go by at night) and full of thimbleberries and blackberries that i made a point of snacking on. the nice thing about being out in the gorge is that it stays fairly cool out there so it's a good respite from the city, not to mention it's absolutely beautiful.