Not exactly my idea of a wilderness hike, but Jesse Callaway, the Language Arts teacher at McKenzie and his family, offered to take us hiking up Mt. Pisgah right outside of Eugene and Springfield. Not knowing anything about this hike or the local area, I was all for it. This was rather ambitious of us considering it would mean that there would be four children under the age of five going for a hike together. We all met at the trailhead and got ourselves together which would take some time. Jesse and I both had backpacks to carry the kids and I would spend most of the time carrying Conrad while he carried his daughter Amelia some of the time because she was a little bit older.
The day was nice and the company was great. Jesse and I were rather different, but for the most part we got along together fairly well. Jacqueline and his wife Katie seemed to hit it off right away and we could tell that they were going to be friends with how much they seemed to have in common. The kids were doing even better. Zyla seemed to take really well to Jesse son Elliot and they spent most of the day together when they weren't bugging their respective parents. The hike itself was uphill on a wide dirt track. It was fairly busy as we were obviously closer to the city down here.
Unfortunately when we reached the top, the fog had settled in and the views were not that spectacular. We got a brief clearing where we could see out to the Three Sisters, but it quickly enveloped us and we spent much of the hike down in the fog. Elliot and Zyla were laughing and enjoying the hike down much more than the hike up. After we were back to the trailhead, we decided to go out and have pizza in Springfield. It sure was fun to hang out with the Edson-Callaways and their kids. They seemed like such awesome people and we would have to spend much more time with them again in the future.
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