Portland Stairs

All through Northwest Portland there are stairs everywhere! It is my mission when go on runs up in the west hills to find at least one flight of new stairs and figure out where it goes. Today I found one hidden behind a guardrail and a Photinia. This dropped me onto a road that looped back around to the top of the staircase and a sidewalk that went down a very steep slope for about three blocks and ended on the corner of Thurman St and 29th Ave. On the other side of Thurman St there was another set of stairs that drops you down under a bridge and is an entrance to part of the Forest Park trail system. Following all these stairs took me from a city neighborhood out into the woods. I guess that is one advantage to never planning a walk or run.