The weather forecast was for beautiful sunny weather. I keep thinking that the high country is gone – we’ve had a few snow storms which seemed like they would stick, but the snow melted, and higher elevations have still been
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10/21/2023 – Rho Ridge North End – 564
This trip was just a “get out in the woods” kind of a trip. We were dog sitting the “grand dog” for the weekend, so he joined Thor and I on this trip. I had several ideas on where to
… Read the rest 10/9/2023 – Horseshoe Saddle and Ruddy Hill
Sorry for the small map above – I wanted to make sure I captured the waypoint of the tread I recalled being shown years ago – more on that later…
… Read the rest Today’s trip was planned to be a pretty quick trip
9/10-9/14/2023 – Necklace Valley Backpack
This trip was my annual backpacking trip with Carly – number 20! These are all the backpacking trips we’ve taken:
… Read the rest - 2002-Duffy Lake – Mt Jefferson Wilderness
- 2004-Red Lake
- 2005-Shining Lake
- 2006-Big Slide Lake – Bull of the Woods Wilderness
- 2007-Doris
9/4/2023 – Schreiner Peak
Today’s hike is one I’ve wanted to do for a long time. Kirk suggested we do it on Labor Day. I will be doing my annual backpack trip with Carly next weekend and needed to do some conditioning anyway, so
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Today’s hike was one where I wanted to hike a trail I hadn’t hiked in a while. I was thinking about doing the north end of Rho Ridge but it was forecast to be kind of warm and I thought
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Today’s hike was a “take Friday off” hike – I planned a short day since we normally babysit the grandkids on Friday. Thor and I headed out early so we could get back early and I decided to do the
… Read the rest 8/2/2023 – God’s Thumb
Today’s trip was a totally unplanned, last minute trip. We were on our family vacation in Lincoln City and we were kind of in-between “things”. Abby stayed at a house in Lincoln City a month or so ago and had
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Today’s hike was originally going to be a work day on another trail, but that fell thru. I decided to do an easier hike today after the last few hikes. On the last hike I had kind of wanted to
… Read the rest 3/4/2023 – Half Creek Waterfall Explorations
Today’s hike was spurred by some info I got from a friend last week at a meeting of the Trail Advocates. A new waterfall had been found after the fires opened things up. It was a pretty tall waterfall and
… Read the rest 2/11/2023 – Bagby Trail Explorations
Today’s hike was different than many I’ve done recently. The weather on Saturday was forecast to be really nice, which turned out to be very accurate. I wanted to get out, and after some discussion with Kirk, we decided to
… Read the rest 1/28/2023 – Fanton Snowshoe
Today’s hike was a relatively simple plan – one which I’ve done before. The idea is to drive up the 4614 road as far as you can to catch the Fanton trail, and then hike it up as far as
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… Read the rest 1/1/2023 – Fish Creek – Post Fire
Today’s hike was my annual New Years Day hike – I’ve done it 10 of the last 12 years. Since you can now legally enter burned areas on foot, we decided to head up the old Fish Creek road (road
… Read the rest 12/26/2022 – Alder Flat Trail
Today’s trip was intended to be a very short hike – less than half a day – I kind of wanted to get in one more hike before the end of the year, but it was also supposed to rain
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Note: The beginning of the track in the map above is a little messed up because I forgot to turn off the battery saver on my phone.
… Read the rest Today’s hike was intended to explore the damage done to the Hillockburn trail
11/19/2022 – Dry Ridge Trail
Today’s hike was to explore some more of the burned areas. We also wanted to hike a trail we hadn’t been on recently and also due to recent snow, had to be accessible. The Dry Ridge trail seemed to fit
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Today’s hike was to take advantage of what I thought would be a relatively nice day for late October. Since we haven’t had easy access to trails down south in the Clackamas (due to all the closures), I wanted to
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Today’s hike was planned to be a contingent hike. A cold front had moved in and it was supposed to rain (maybe a lot) – I didn’t really feel like hiking in heavy rain, so I figured I’d just see
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Trying to take advantage of the really nice fall weather, and the fact that I had Columbus day off, I decided to head out on a hike. I didn’t want anything too taxing, but I wanted a nice day in
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Today’s hike had two objectives:
… Read the rest - To hike to the Bull of the Woods and look at the remains of the lookout that was destroyed in the fires last year (and also see the burned areas)
- To explore north of the
9/6-9/9/2022 – Alpine Lakes Wilderness Backpack Loop
This trip was my annual backpacking trip with Carly (Number 18). Originally, we were planning to climb Luna Peak a little farther north. A few days before we were to leave, a fire broke out near where we would be
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Today’s hike had two objectives:
… Read the rest - To do some conditioning before my annual backpacking trip with Carly
- To see if I could find any evidence of a continuation of Corral Springs on the south side of Roaring River
We headed out
8/13/2022 – Baty Butte to Powerlines
Today’s trip was kind of a surprise (the destination was) – for the last 2 years, the majority of the Clackamas has been closed due to fires. Even though a huge portion of the district didn’t burn, the roads getting
… Read the rest 6/28/2022 – Sahalie Falls Loop
This hike was an “all hands” hike that was family friendly. We did it on our family vacation near Sisters. The plan was to view Koosah falls and then take the river trail to Sahalie Falls and back. It is
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Today’s hike was Carly’s request. We had a family vacation in Sisters and since she didn’t get to climb South Sister in 2019 when did the Three Sisters backpack loop, she wanted to do it during this trip. Nicholas wanted
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Today’s hike was intended to be kind of a redemption from all the rain we’ve had recently. It was Juneteenth and I had the day off and the weather report looked good – mostly sunny weather. When I woke up
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Todays hike was intended to take advantage of some rare nice weather. We’ve been having an extraordinarily wet and cool spring and most weekends have been very wet. I haven’t taken any vacation time this year yet, so I decided
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I haven’t been hiking in over a month – mostly due to really wet weather and the fact I wasn’t in the right head space to deal with getting soaked – so I’ve been waiting for a nice day to
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Today’s hike was my first hike in almost 2 months – I’ve been resting my knee after the arthroscopic surgery and was finally able to get out and do some real hiking again. Zack was originally going to go but
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Today’s outing was not technically hiking, but it was exploration for the burned areas in the Clackamas. Since we STILL cannot access any of the burned areas, this was the next best thing. A friend of mine knew a pilot,
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Today’s hike was definitely a “hiking light” to see how my knee would do an an easy day of hiking. It has been over 4 weeks since my knee surgery so the doctor said it would be OK to do
… Read the rest 1/22/2022 – Mosier Creek
This was kind of a last minute quick trip just to get out on a beautiful winter day and can only be characterized as “hiking light”. This BLM land off Ridge road (Mosier Creek flows thru it) is pretty close,
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Today’s hike was a great day out with Carly and the 3 dogs. She was down visiting for a few days as a late Christmas celebration. Since pickings are slim due to all the fire closures and all the low
… Read the rest 1/1/2022 – Highland Butte
Today’s hike was the annual “first hike of the year” event. I’ve done a hike on 1/1 on 9 of the last 11 years – and one year I missed it due to weather. We’ve had some low elevation snow,
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