What a view! We spent last week in Oregon. Annette had told me of this place and said she wanted to go back to see it.
It is only 4 1/2 hours from home. We stayed at an outstanding B&B and enjoyed the beautiful area with Annette's brother Stan and his wife Terri. This lake is at the 4200 foot level and the Tram leaves you at the top of the area at 8150 feet. The restaurant in the picture is the highest restauant in the Northwest. The food was great and the prices were very reasonable. One of the tourists we met at the top said that this had been on their "Bucket List" for a while and I told her it should be on everyone's list. We will certainly go back. There are about three miles of trails around the top of Mt. Howard and we only did about a third of those. We would like to see the other side of the mountain. In the bottom picture you can see the mountain to the left. That is where the tramway goes. It is a fifteen minute ride and lots of views to go with it. We had breakfast with our friends from Dorset, Ontario yesterday in Wenatchee. We hadn't seen them for four years. Their daughter and boyfriend with them were on a bike ride to Winthorp and beyond. It was great to see them and spend some time with them. They run the Marina near Dorset, that we stopped at in 2006. It sounds like all is well in Germany as Kathleen has started back to work. We are shopping pricing for a trip later this fall. The weather is beautiful here and we hope to have much more of it in the next few weeks.
It is only 4 1/2 hours from home. We stayed at an outstanding B&B and enjoyed the beautiful area with Annette's brother Stan and his wife Terri. This lake is at the 4200 foot level and the Tram leaves you at the top of the area at 8150 feet. The restaurant in the picture is the highest restauant in the Northwest. The food was great and the prices were very reasonable. One of the tourists we met at the top said that this had been on their "Bucket List" for a while and I told her it should be on everyone's list. We will certainly go back. There are about three miles of trails around the top of Mt. Howard and we only did about a third of those. We would like to see the other side of the mountain. In the bottom picture you can see the mountain to the left. That is where the tramway goes. It is a fifteen minute ride and lots of views to go with it. We had breakfast with our friends from Dorset, Ontario yesterday in Wenatchee. We hadn't seen them for four years. Their daughter and boyfriend with them were on a bike ride to Winthorp and beyond. It was great to see them and spend some time with them. They run the Marina near Dorset, that we stopped at in 2006. It sounds like all is well in Germany as Kathleen has started back to work. We are shopping pricing for a trip later this fall. The weather is beautiful here and we hope to have much more of it in the next few weeks. 
