I got out to enjoy a beautiful day after a week of heavy rain at the Cascades. It wasn’t too crowded, so the dogs could do the hike off-leash, which they fully enjoyed. Cody would run ahead and we’d catch up to him when he found the next access to water (although it was freezing, so I don’t know how he liked going in it so much!) and Ellie would stand and watch Cody thinking he was crazy. After all the rain, the water level was very high and so there were extra water falls and streams of water over the path that aren’t usually there. When we got to the big waterfall at the end, it was much more powerful than normal and the rocks that you can normally stand on were under water (to compare, look at our Cascades pictures from last September). When we got home, the dogs got a bath to get the mud out and then they slept for the rest of the day. Later, we found Ellie curled up in a basket of clean towels, completely passed out!
