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stopping for a lunch of peanut butter sandwiches after an hour or steady climbing up through an old growth forest in the massive seaside hills behind Cape Perpetua on the Oregon coast.
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finally a ridge after lots of steady climbing - a carpet of dainty flowers
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"Cook's Ridge" on our 6.5 mile loop hike from the Cape Perpetua Visitors Center - we thought we'd reached maximum elevation - we were wrong - more uphill to come
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two old darlings on "Cook's Ridge"
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at this point we thought we'd hiked all the steep part of our 6.5 mile loop, but we were wrong
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"Cook's Ridge" named for English explorer naturalist sea Captain James Cook - the first Englishman to visit the Pacific Northwest
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walking out 6.5 mile loop from the Cape Perpetua Visitors Center - "Cook's Ridge Trail" up and out, "Gwynne's Creek Trail" down and back.
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"don't move!"
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Linda inspecting a fern
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the prevalence of ferns, some massive, some growing on the side of huge old trees, some on large clusters, give this hike an exotic prehistoric feeling
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walking back down the Gwynne's Creek side
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Britton giving his mother her favorite gift, accompanying her on a wilderness hike
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Britton walks through a sea of ferns
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Lindy following the trail which wends its way through many massive old trees, many much larger than this but so hard to catch a sense of that scale in photographs
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rainforest
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Foxglove?
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kind of berry anyone?
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these giant old trees
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in the coastal rainforest
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a wild iris
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Britton on the Oregon Coast Trail
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Oregon Coast Trail - together with "Cook's Ridge" and "Gwynne's Creek" this made up our 6.5 mile loop hike.
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Horsetail ferns?