Tag Archives: History

This refers to a trip where some kind of historical element was present (old artifacts, etc)

TripReport, TripReport2023

9/10-9/14/2023 – Necklace Valley Backpack

September 15, 2023 Rob Williams Leave a comment

This trip was my annual backpacking trip with Carly – number 20! These are all the backpacking trips we’ve taken:

2002-Duffy Lake – Mt Jefferson Wilderness
2004-Red Lake
2005-Shining Lake
2006-Big Slide Lake – Bull of the Woods Wilderness
2007-Doris

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TripReport, TripReport2023

8/26/2023 – Rho Creek Trail – 569

August 26, 2023 Rob Williams Leave a comment

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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TripReport, TripReport2021

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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TripReport, TripReport2017

10/28/2017 – Plaza and Salmon Mountain Trails

October 29, 2017 Rob Williams

The plan for Today’s hike was to hike up the Plaza trail to the old plane crash site, then see how we felt and maybe press on to the old lookout on Salmon Mountain. The weather report was supposed to

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TripReport, TripReport2016

7/6 – 7/10/2016 – Enchanted Valley Backpacking

July 11, 2016 Rob Williams Leave a comment

Hike description

This was my annual backpacking trip. Unfortunately, Carly was not able to join this year, so Kirk, Sarah and I went to explore the Enchanted Valley in the Olympic National Park. The trip took us up the long … Read the rest

TripReport, TripReport2016

3/12/2016 – South Fork Waterworks

March 19, 2016 Rob Williams Leave a comment

Hike description

Note: The map above was a hand rendered guess as to our route – I forgot my phone on this trip, so had no real GPS track.

Photos will be coming soon.

This trip was to explore some

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TripReport, TripReport2016

1/23/2016 – Eagle Creek Trail – 501- Clackamas

January 24, 2016 Rob Williams Leave a comment

Hike description

This was kind of an unplanned hike. I had planned to stay home today and do some things around the house. Zack texted me about 7:30 and asked if I was going anywhere today. After a few back

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TripReport, TripReport2015

8/29/2015 – Pansy Lake Explorations – 551, 558

August 30, 2015 Rob Williams Leave a comment

Description of Hike:

Today’s hike was going to be interesting due to the weather – we haven’t had any significant rainfall for almost 3 months now (except one really short intense storm about a month ago), and they were predicting

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TripReport, TripReport2014

09/13/2014 – Horseshoe Saddle, Ruddy Hill and Skyline Trail

September 15, 2014 Rob Williams Leave a comment

Description of Hike:

This was originally going to be a light hiking day – the plan was to meet the daughters of “Rhondy” (a former Trails supervisor in the Mt Hood NF) to hike the trail that has a sign

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TripReport, TripReport2013

11/25/2013 – Old Hillockburn Trail Exploration – Old Silvicultural Area

November 25, 2013 Rob Williams Leave a comment

Description of Hike:

This hike was kind of planned last minute. We’ve had an extended run of nice, sunny (but cold) weather, and I needed to take some time off before the end of the year, so I took a

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TripReport, TripReport2013

9/2/2013 – Shellrock Lake, Grouse Point, Cutoff Trails and Frazier Mountain

September 2, 2013 Rob Williams Leave a comment

Description of Hike:

The goal for this hike was to capture a track for the Shellrock Lake trail, and to capture the east end of the Grouse Point trail (that is a LONG trail!) for inclusion on the trailadvocate website.

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TripReport, TripReport2013

1/1/2013 – Abandoned Broughton Log Flume Exploration

January 1, 2013 Rob Williams Leave a comment

Description of Hike:

This was a hike I had originally heard about on the Portland Hikers website. It combines two of my interests – hiking and history. This is an old abandoned log flume that was used from about 1913

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TripReport, TripReport2012

12/10/2012 – Gold Creek Mines

December 11, 2012 Rob Williams Leave a comment

Description of Hike:

This was a hike based on a trip report on the Portland Hikers website. I had the day off and was trying to find something that was interesting, new and would be doable without snow. This seemed

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TripReport, TripReport2012

12/03/2012 – Bedford Point Lookout and Wanderers Peak Weather Station

December 4, 2012 Rob Williams Leave a comment

Description of Hike:

This was a rather short hike – but I had been feeling bad over the weekend and I thought that getting some fresh air might help me recover from whatever it was I had. I had the

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TripReport, TripReport2012

11/10/2012 – Weather Station exploration and Oak Grove Butte Area

November 11, 2012 Rob Williams Leave a comment

Description of Hike:

This was an end of the higher elevation year hike to try and find a couple of weather stations as well as hike to the top of Oak Grove Butte and also hike an old abandoned trail

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TripReport, TripReport2012

8/8/2012 – Skyline Trail Exploration

August 11, 2012 Rob Williams Leave a comment

Description of Hike:

Hike description

After getting a taste of locating old trails the prior weekend, (seeing the different Skyline Trail segments), I got so excited about the Skyline trail that I had to take a day off from work

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TripReport, TripReport2012

7/14/2012 – Corral Springs (507) Trail

July 18, 2012 Rob Williams Leave a comment

Description of Hike:

This hike was a milestone for me in my goal of hiking all the trails in the Clackamas district. It marked the last trail that I have not hiked at all (I still have two more trails

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TripReport, TripReport2012

4/14/2012 – Salmonberry Canyon Epic

April 15, 2012 Rob Williams Leave a comment

Description of Hike:

Well, where to start…..This was a hike I have been wanting to do for several years now. Earlier this year I had made a recon hike to see what the two trailheads were like, how accessible they

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TripReport, TripReport2012

3/9/2012 – Salmonberry Canyon Exploration

March 10, 2012 Rob Williams Leave a comment

Description of Hike:

This was an exploratory trip to help with planning the shuttle hike of the Salmonberry Canyon – the old railroad grade that was wiped out in 2007 and is now closed.

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TripReport, TripReport2011, Vol3

1/27/2011 – Riverside Trail – 723

January 27, 2011 Rob Williams Leave a comment

Description of Hike:

I decided to take advantage of the nice weather and take a day off from work. It was a little cool and foggy in the morning, but the sun came out a little later and it was

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TripReport, TripReport2010, Vol3

9/6/2010 – South Fork Clackamas falls

September 6, 2010 Rob Williams Leave a comment

Description of Hike:

This was another hike up the South Fork of the Clackamas to explore the old Oregon City Waterworks relics. I went with Kirk and the new objective was to get to the bottom of all 3 of

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TripReport, TripReport2010, Vol3

8/20 – 8/21/2010 – Bagby – Whetstone – Battle Ax Creek Trails

August 22, 2010 Rob Williams Leave a comment

Description of Hike:

What a weekend! The original plan was to hike the south end of the Bagby trail, going up to Silver King Lake for night #1, then come down across the Whetstone trail and then down the Gold

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TripReport, TripReport2010, Vol3

7/19/2010 – Plaza Trail – 783

July 19, 2010 Rob Williams Leave a comment

Description of Hike:

This was a hike up the old Plaza Trail off the 4610 (Abbot) road just before the Twin Springs campground which is now all bermed off. We first stopped at the remnants of the old Plaza Guard

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TripReport, TripReport2010, Vol3

2/20/2010 – South Fork Clackamas and Memaloose Creek Falls

February 20, 2010 Rob Williams Leave a comment

Description of Hike:

This was another trip up the South Fork of the Clackamas where the old OC Waterworks was. This time we wanted to get to the base of the falls to get a better look at them. We

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TripReport, TripReport2010, Vol3

1/10/2010 – Oregon City Waterworks – South Fork and Memaloose Creek

January 10, 2010 Rob Williams Leave a comment

Description of Hike:

This was a hike I had on my list of “to dos” for quite some time. It was hiking up the South Fork of the Clackamas to explore the remains of the old Oregon City waterworks. From

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