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The night\\nbefore the trip Cara and her sister had invited Kara, Laura and I and our\\nfriend Christine over to her sister's place for a homemade Korean dinner. That\\nwas really nice--very tasty, one of my first times trying real Korean food--and\\nwe got to work out some of the last minute details for the trip.\"), mdx(\"p\", null, \"Initially we decided on a route starting from Bennett Pass Sno-Park that would\\ntake us to Hood River Meadows and Sahalie Falls, but when we got up there the\\nSno-Park configuration had changed and they were detouring people to an\\nalternate location. Since none of us had ever been there before, we couldn't\\nreally tell where the trail we were looking for started, so we just followed\\nsome other skiers on the only path we saw taking off from the Sno-Park. 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