{"id":47708,"date":"2015-08-12T10:33:49","date_gmt":"2015-08-12T17:33:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/?p=47708"},"modified":"2015-08-12T10:33:49","modified_gmt":"2015-08-12T17:33:49","slug":"not-quite-paradise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/?p=47708","title":{"rendered":"Not Quite Paradise"},"content":{"rendered":"

Saturday we tried to go to a hike on Mt. Hood, Enid Lake, but the directions we had weren’t great and we couldn’t find the trailhead. Instead we ended up doing Paradise Park<\/a> and Little Zig Zag Falls<\/a>. The Zig Zag Falls were really pretty and an easy walk from the parking lot. The whole “hike” was a little over half a mile round trip.<\/p>\n

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The mini falls were really pretty and if you got too close to them it was FREEZING! There was a little picnic area and that was about it. The trail ended. I posted a short video on Instagram<\/a> of the falls.<\/p>\n

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We went back down the trail and then drove down the road a bit to a trail head for Paradise Park.<\/p>\n

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You walked through a primitive campground to get to the trailhead and then the trail went through old growth trees and the ground was covered in lush green moss.<\/p>\n

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\nThe first part of the trail was pretty flat and you walked on soft ground, which was nice. We were the only people on the trail. Then it started going uphill and there were some switchbacks.<\/p>\n

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It was a lot steeper than we were expecting and our hearts were pounding. I talked to my chiropractor and he thought that my back injury was an accumulation of my back feeling tight, sitting in the car, and then doing a steep hike with an incline–where you are forced to lean forward as you climb. And that did me in.<\/p>\n

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Despite my back issues, the hike was okay. There wasn’t a stunning view, the climb up the side of the mountain kept you in the trees but you got glimpses of the area around you through the trees and you realized just how high up you were.<\/p>\n

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\nWe stopped to rest and have lunch (I had a PB&J sandwich), gave Bella some water and continued up the trail a bit. Then I decided I’d had enough and we turned around. It was easier going back down but my back was still bothering me.<\/p>\n

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\nWe did just under 4 miles and I burned 507 calories. Then my back went out. \ud83d\ude41
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You guys know the rest!<\/p>\n

As of today I am feeling a LOT better! No back spasms since Sunday night. I went to the chiropractor Monday afternoon and got a massage yesterday. I’m back at work and glad I have a standing desk, I think that’s helping. So far so good!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Saturday we tried to go to a hike on Mt. Hood, Enid Lake, but the directions we had weren’t great and we couldn’t find the trailhead. Instead we ended up doing Paradise Park and Little Zig Zag Falls. The Zig Zag Falls were really pretty and an easy walk from the parking lot. The whole […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[8413,43,101,127,128,138,160,165,811,181,2882,6297,8377,2932],"tags":[7969,8643,8562,8564,4057,7966,8563,2936],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47708"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=47708"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47708\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47725,"href":"https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47708\/revisions\/47725"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}