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Refers to trips on abandoned trails or roads

TripReport, TripReport2026

5/2/2026 – Tarzan Springs to Mt Lowe – 595, 564

May 3, 2026 Rob Williams Leave a comment

Today’s trip had a couple of purposes:

Replace my trail cam at the second rockslide – the battery was at 7%
Try and make it up to Mt Lowe

The second objective was a little ambitious, but I’ve done this

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4/23/2026 – Baty Butte Trail – 545

April 24, 2026 Rob Williams Leave a comment

Today’s hike was kind of a spur of the moment hike. The weather report was supposed to be sunny (spoiler alert – it was wrong), so I thought I’d head out somewhere. I was considering heading up to Burnt Granite

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3/21/2026 – Tarzan Springs to Burnt Granite to Mt Lowe – 595, 564

March 23, 2026 Rob Williams Leave a comment

Today’s hike had no real objective – at least not when I started. Originally I was thinking of heading up Burnt Granite from the 4650 road and maybe take it up to where it meets the 270 spur and then

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2/25/2026 – Old North Fork Trail to Huxley Lake – 521

February 27, 2026 Rob Williams Leave a comment

Today’s hike was pretty much a “get out in the woods and enjoy a beautiful winter day” hike. My goal in retirement has been to hike twice a week and with recent weather, I’ve been having a tough time making

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1/24/2026 – Cottonwood Meadows Snowshoe – 705

January 25, 2026 Rob Williams Leave a comment

The plan for today’s trip was to head to the lower Cottonwood Meadows trailhead and walk up as far as we could until we hit enough snow and then put on our snowshoes and go as far up as we

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1/21/2026 – Rho Creek – 569

January 21, 2026 Rob Williams Leave a comment

With all the nice weather the last week or so, I’ve wanted to try and get out as much as I can. The beginning of the month was terrible weather so I wasn’t getting my two hikes a week in.

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11/20/2025 – Burnt Granite Trail – 595

November 22, 2025 Rob Williams Leave a comment

Today’s hike was a “make up” hike. I’ve been fighting a cold for the past week and was supposed to go hiking with Oliver the day before. I wasn’t sure if I was going to feel up to it, but

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10/20/2025 – Baty Butte to Powerlines – 545

October 21, 2025 Rob Williams Leave a comment

I had heard that there had been recent maintenance on the Baty Butte trail, so today’s hike was to check out and enjoy the work. This is one of my favorite trails – it is very unique with some good

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6/5/2025 – Burnt Granite and Mt Lowe

June 6, 2025 Rob Williams Leave a comment

Today’s hike would be my only opportunity to get out this week due to other commitments. I wanted to find something interesting. After looking at snow levels, I landed on hiking the upper Burnt Granite trail. The original plan was

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5/27/2025 – Old Dickey Lake Trail

May 28, 2025 Rob Williams Leave a comment

Today’s hike had one objective – see if we could find the remainder of the old Dickey Lake trail. We had found part of it a couple of years ago when we did a wintertime trip to Bagby. We had

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3/29/2025 – Alder Swamp

March 31, 2025 Rob Williams Leave a comment

Today’s hike was a “return to the woods” hike. I had eye surgery a couple of weeks ago and was required to take it easy for 2-3 weeks. I haven’t hiked Alder Swamp since last year and I’ve been curious

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1/25/2025 – White Iris Trail – Old Baldy – 502

January 25, 2025 Rob Williams 1 Comment

Today’s hike was kind of “get out and enjoy the nice weather” hike. We’ve had REALLY nice weather for January, although it has been cold. It is supposed to continue for part of next week and then it sounds like

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1/19/2025 – Cripple Creek – 703

January 20, 2025 Rob Williams Leave a comment

Today’s hike was a bit shorter than usual (although we still did 5 miles – and the first couple were REALLY, REALLY hard!) – we decided to hike on Sunday afternoon – Kirk had a memorial to attend and I

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11/16/2024 – Shellrock Cache Meadow Serene Lake Loop

November 17, 2024 Rob Williams Leave a comment

Since I’m going to be having cataract surgery this week (which means I will be down for a week or two) and because I didn’t get out last weekend, I wanted to make sure I got out this weekend. My

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11/6/2024 – Baty Butte Trail

November 6, 2024 Rob Williams Leave a comment

Today’s hike was to take advantage of some gorgeous November weather and to burn a vacation day. Zack and I had been thinking about heading up to Baty Butte the weekend before but it looked AWFULLY wet so we decided

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8/24/2024 – Cottonwood Meadows – 705

August 25, 2024 Rob Williams Leave a comment

Today’s hike turned out considerably differently than expected. The plan was to hike the Cottonwood Meadows trail from the southern trailhead – go up the trail to the northern trailhead and turn around and come back down. We encountered a

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5/25/2024 – Huxley Lake from North Fork Trailhead – 521

May 26, 2024 Rob Williams Leave a comment

Today’s hike was to kind of expand on the hike I did last week. After hiking part of the Huxley Lake trail last week, Kirk noticed some comments in the old Trail Sheet talking about a campsite and an old

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5/11/2024 – Bissell/Old Baldy 502

May 11, 2024 Rob Williams Leave a comment

The weather today was supposed to be sunny and unseasonably hot. I wanted to get up into snow somewhere, and decided to either do the White Iris trail or the Bissell trail, depending on which we could get to. It

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12/16/2023- Rho Ridge North – 564 – SNOW!

December 16, 2023 Rob Williams Leave a comment

Today’s hike was a spur of the minute hike. I had originally intended to stay home and work on a Christmas present for our granddaughters. The weather was supposed to be beautiful and some recent snow had mostly melted. I

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12/9/2023 – Burnt Granite – SNOW! – 595

December 10, 2023 Rob Williams Leave a comment

We’ve had some cold weather and a bunch of rain, so higher elevations have gotten more snow. Looking at the modeled snow maps, I was hoping we might be able to get up to a last of the season higher

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11/24/2023 – Burnt Granite

November 25, 2023 Rob Williams Leave a comment

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

October 22, 2023 Rob Williams Leave a comment

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

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2/11/2023 – Bagby Trail Explorations

February 13, 2023 Rob Williams 1 Comment

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

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9/24/2022 – Bull of the Woods

September 25, 2022 Rob Williams Leave a comment

Today’s hike had two objectives:

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

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8/13/2022 – Baty Butte to Powerlines

August 14, 2022 Rob Williams Leave a comment

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

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6/16/2022 – Bissell Trail to Old Baldy

June 16, 2022 Rob Williams Leave a comment

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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5/21/2022 – White Iris Trail area Explorations

May 22, 2022 Rob Williams Leave a comment

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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4/9/2022 – Huxley Lake

April 10, 2022 Rob Williams Leave a comment

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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11/13/2021-West Pinhead Butte and Skyline Trail Segments

November 14, 2021 Rob Williams Leave a comment

Saturday was supposed to be reasonably good weather (for November) and I thought maybe we could get in one late season hike on the east side. It won’t be long before this area is all covered with snow and inaccessible.

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10/30/2021 – Sisi Butte and Skyline Trail

November 1, 2021 Rob Williams Leave a comment

Today’s hike was something very different. The weather was supposed to be nice, although somewhat chilly and a bit windy and gusty. I had said we could explore some of the other segments of the old Skyline trail and Kirk

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7/3/2021 – East Side Driving Tour Part 2 – Mt Lowe

July 4, 2021 Rob Williams Leave a comment

Today’s hike was another long day of driving to explore the east side of the district after the Riverside fire. We did a similar tour two weeks ago, trying to rest my ankles. My ankles have been doing pretty well,

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12/23/2020 – White Iris Trail

December 23, 2020 Rob Williams Leave a comment

With most of the Clackamas district still closed due to after effects from the Riverside and Lionshead fire, options are extremely limited. The weather was supposed to be nice today and so I decided to head up the lower portion

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12/5/2020 – Bissell and Old Baldy Trails

December 5, 2020 Rob Williams Leave a comment

Today’s hike was planned to be one of the few trails we have access to due to the Riverside fire. Originally we were going to do the White Iris trail, but we decided to head up the old abandoned Bissell

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11/7/2020 – Shellrock Lake to Cache Meadow to Cripple Creek Trails

November 7, 2020 Rob Williams Leave a comment

The goal for today’s hike was to get down to the Cripple creek trail to see how it fared in the recent Riverside fire. I knew it was going to be a tough day and I knew it was going

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8/19/2020-Bull of the Woods Trail – 550

August 19, 2020 Rob Williams Leave a comment

Today’s hike was my birthday hike. I have the week off and today was my birthday, so I decided to take a hike (no pun intended). I decided to hike the Bull of the Woods trail up to the lookout

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