[pct-l] Trail Fest Side Trip

[chelin at teleport.com (Sharon & Chuck Chelin)]

Good evening,

If any of you out-of-towners visiting Portland for the PCTA Trail Fest have
time Sunday you may want to consider stretching your legs a bit with a hike
up the fabled PCT alternate, Eagle Creek Trail.  The trailhead is near
Cascade Locks, only about 38 freeway miles from the event hotel.  A hike can
be as long or as short as you wish.  Punchbowl falls is a 4 mile round-trip,
Tunnel Falls is an 11 mile round trip, and there are many interesting sights
between.  If there is interest I can provide transportation for a few, and
maybe some other locals can as well.  You will be pleased to know the secret
right-of-passage ritual, kissing a banana slug, is not required of Eagle
Creek day-hikers.

Steel-Eye