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Trips with Zack

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6/4-6/2021 – Eagle Creek Headwaters Backpack Trip

June 7, 2021 Rob Williams Leave a comment

This trip was a trip dreamed up by Zack – he named it the Eagle Creek Headwaters trip and it seemed very appropriate. This was the plan:

Day 1 – Head down the Eagle Creek trail to the Douglas Trail

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5/15/2021 – South Huckleberry Trail – Molalla Corridor

May 16, 2021 Rob Williams Leave a comment

Today’s hike was really just a “get out in the woods” hike. I’ve not been out for a couple of weeks and after getting my second COVID shot, I needed some fresh air. Zack needed to get out and encouraged

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3/27/2021 – Eagle Creek Loop

March 28, 2021 Rob Williams Leave a comment

Today’s hike was another attempt to find the old location of the Eagle Creek Lookout. It was a lookout that was not in operation for too long, about 20 years or so and has been gone for over 60 years

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2/9/2020 – Helion Creek Rescue Attempt

February 11, 2020 Rob Williams Leave a comment

After the disaster last week where I lost my new drone, I had been thinking about it and I couldn’t let it go. The weather for the following Sunday was supposed to be rather nice, and I thought it was

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1/1/2020 – Lower Cottonwood Meadows – 705

January 2, 2020 Rob Williams Leave a comment

This was my (mostly) annual new years day hike – I’ve done this 8 out of the last 10 years now. One year there was just too much snow to go ANYWHERE (2017), and I’m not sure what happened the

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2/3/2018 – Calico Road and Fish Creek

February 4, 2018 Rob Williams

Today’s hike was a “Get out in the woods” hike. I’d been working on the kitchen remodel and hadn’t hiked for several weekends, and I really wanted to get out. Thor needed some exercise too – especially since Jet was

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12/9/2017 – Switch Creek Trail

December 10, 2017 Rob Williams

This hike was a wintertime hike to take advantage of the beautiful break in the weather we’ve been having – 10 days of clear, cold weather in the middle of December! The plan was to hike up the old Switch

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5/27/2017 – Bissell, Old Baldy, White Iris Trails

May 27, 2017 Rob Williams

I had a 3 day weekend for Memorial Day and the weather was supposed to be beautiful (if a little warm for this time of year). So, I wanted to get out and do a hike. Options are still somewhat

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11/19/2016 – Buck Lake Trail – old 701

November 20, 2016 Rob Williams Leave a comment

Hike description

This hike was an opportunity to explore the old 701 Trail – It is referred to as the Buck Lake trail on the old maps. I was made aware of it recently and wanted to explore it since

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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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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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12/14/2015 – Eagle Creek Trail – 440

December 14, 2015 Rob Williams Leave a comment

Hike description

Today’s hike had been planned for quite some time. Zack and I wanted to do Eagle Creek (I had never done this hike before), but we wanted to do it with a minimum of crowds. Today worked out

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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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1/31/2015 – MP3 and Rimrock Trails

February 2, 2015 Rob Williams Leave a comment

Description of Hike:

My daughter called me and asked if I wanted to go hiking on Saturday – the weather was supposed to be nice. She wanted mountain views. I thought about it for a while and looked at different

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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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3/22/2014 – North Fork Clackamas River – Fisherman Trail

March 22, 2014 Rob Williams Leave a comment

Description of Hike:

Originally, this was going to be a hike up to Cold Springs to start the year. I had gotten up there one week prior with little difficulty (most of the roads were free of snow, with the

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1/25/2014 – South Fork Water Pipeline

January 25, 2014 Rob Williams Leave a comment

Description of Hike:

This trip has been on my radar for quite some time – probably since I did the series of hikes to the South Fork waterworks up the South Fork in 2010. The goal was to hike downriver

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