Hart's Cove Trail Run

My mom and I decided to get out of the hot valley for a day and headed to a hike that we both couldn't believe we hadn't done before. We couldn't count the number of times we'd hiked Cascade Head, the gorgeous Nature Conservancy-owned bluff which shelters an endangered species of butterfly. However, we'd never hiked to Hart's Cove, just on the north side of Cascade Head, and featuring one of the waterfalls which so impressed Captain Cook (I think) when he named the area.

The weather turned grey, cold, and rainy when we drove through thick second-growth forest to the trail head. Freezing, we decided to just take off running down the super-steep first part of the hike! It was a blast, we both felt like deer running through the woods!

The steep part of the hike ended at a short creek crossing, where we got our first glimpse of the massive old-growth sitka spruce for which the area is known. We kept on running to Hart's Cove, and here I'll let the pics do the talking.





We finished off the day with IPA's at one of my favorite brewpubs - Pelican Brewery, on the beach at Pacific City.