July 16 to July 17, 2011 Water (Matt) 7 miles 3,250 feet gained 1 night
Meh. Stupid NW weather. I'll juxtapose this one as a big wallop of balance to the prior Quintessential NW. Rain is also quintessential NW. Mnt. Conditions of Spring and Fall. Plopped down just shy of LC. Cleared Sat evening. Came back in Sunday AM.. then paused, and we retreated back down. Everyone was skunked around the NW in their own way this weekend. So,...
July 16, 2011 Sirhikesalot1 9.5 miles 750 feet gained
A strange loop hike, but we had a blast... First we checked out White River Falls, amazing... Then down the canyon we went, visited the old power station on the way by. Then it was on and off trail all the way to the Dechutes, even crossed White River once on our way through. Had nice weather and thunder storms, great day...
July 15 to July 16, 2011 Conner Dowling 6 miles 750 feet gained 1 night
Quick after work overnighter ...
July 15 to July 17, 2011 amber 11 miles 0 feet gained 2 nights
July 15 to July 17, 2011 Kirk 9 miles 1,250 feet gained 2 nights
July 15 to July 16, 2011 Andy 10 miles 500 feet gained 1 night
July 15, 2011 jon 10 miles 3,750 feet gained
The middle section is overgrown a bit but other than that, it was nice hiking here again without having to lug the snowshoes. On the way back down I met a man wearing a blood-soaked cap whom earlier had slipped and fell on his head, so I walked with him the rest of the way to make sure someone would be around in case he passed out. The guy was a trooper howe...
July 15, 2011 Bosterson 26.5 miles 11,250 feet gained
My version of the Triple D: the DDT - Defiance, Dog, and Table. Left the Starvation Creek trailhead at 6:30am up the Defiance trail. No snow anywhere! Summit at 8:45, down Starvation and back at the car by 11am. Ate and drank, then drove across the Hood River Bridge to Dog, starting around noon, back to the car a little before 3pm. Drove down to the Aldrich ...
July 15 to July 16, 2011 Chris 13 miles 2,500 feet gained 1 night
I drove in late, camped at Shellrock. The skeeters aren't too bad right now, but they just hatched, so they should be bad in a week or so. It rained all night. In the morning I did the loop. The snow was tolerable, but there were still large 1/2 mile stretches of full coverage. Since it rained, everything was very wet (duh), and since the trail is often rock...
July 13, 2011 Jen 6 miles 250 feet gained
My niece and her fiance were visiting from Florida and wanted to go visit a lava cave. It's a two mile walk in on logging road to the TH, then a short 1/2 mile hike to the entrance of Ole's Cave. We wore helmets and brought headlamps and walked through to the third entrance- about .7 miles. It was a little easier than the upper section of the ape cave, witho...
July 12, 2011 Josh Mayer 1.5 miles 0 feet gained
Ice Age Trail from Fawn Ave. heading toward Mondeaux Dam. First, headed west toward Mondeaux. The grass was tall, resulting in often finding ticks on my pants. A large spiders dropped in on my shoulder. After only a quarter mile or so, a large, deep mud puddle appeared, covering the entire area around the path. The upcoming mud and more deep grass, and swarm...
July 11, 2011 Josh Mayer 5 miles 0 feet gained
Timm's Hill is Wisconsin's highest point at 1951.5 feet. Impressive, I know. There are a couple small lakes and a handful of ski trails to hike. Very cute lakes. There is a lookout tower at the top of the hill, so you can see over the top of the trees. Viewing distance is very far Pics on Flickr: pieterpan.
July 10, 2011 Julia 2.5 miles 750 feet gained
July 10, 2011 Joe Omundson 9 miles 3,000 feet gained
July 10, 2011 Eric Peterson 5 miles 2,500 feet gained
Even saw Captain Defiance, aka Mayhem, on my way up for a super quick little knee testing hike I was conducting. Nice chatting with you sir! Also met 2 nice gals both on the way up and way down, but on the way down they were taking a short break so I told them the legend about Captain Defiance and to check both PDX Hikers and WH for further details. Love mee...
July 9, 2011 Jack K. 9 miles 1,500 feet gained
July 9 to July 10, 2011 Water (Matt) 10.5 miles 3,000 feet gained 1 night
Quintessential brilliance of living in the NW: Sleep in Saturday and enjoy a sunny, relaxing awakening in bed. Pack bags. Go to farmers market to get fresh product, breakfast/lunch. Buy fresh kettle-corn and vacuum seal it to send to family in Michigan. Finish packing bags, including brews and fresh strawberries. Arrive at trailhead 4pm. At wonderful camp am...
July 9 to July 10, 2011 Eric Thompson 16 miles 7,000 feet gained 1 night
second attempt at rock of ages/nesmith point. hiked from ainsworth (safe parking) to just within view of ponytail falls. hiked up the rock of ages use trail. that trail is... insane. not only the steepest i've ever done in the gorge, but has a bit of poison oak scattered about right where it's hard to keep your balance. i hiked up towards the horsetail creek...
July 9, 2011 Christophe Deppe 9 miles 4,000 feet gained
July 9, 2011 Kyle Meyer 7 miles 1,750 feet gained
Zipped out to Burnt Lake for what I thought would be a quick overnight. I only brought my bivy sack for shelter as the forecast was good, but I quickly realized that would be insufficient with all of the hungry mosquitoes around drinking me dry. I tried to fish a little, but was quickly overwhelmed with mosquitoes. I hiked out at 9pm and made it home before ...
July 9, 2011 Bosterson 19 miles 4,750 feet gained
Started at Wahclella, up Gorge Trail 400 to Road 777, then to the Tanner trailhead. Up from there all the way to Tanner Butte. Overgrown at times towards the end, but NO SNOW!!! A recent GPS-enabled TR at PH pegged this at around 20 mi and 5000 ft, so I'm splitting the difference with that and the PH/NWH stats. A long dayhike, but not super steep cause it's ...
July 8, 2011 Debbi 3 miles 0 feet gained
July 8 to July 10, 2011 Roman 18 miles 4,750 feet gained 2 nights
Just off a nice little loop in Badger Creek Wilderness. Day 1: got 7pm start and went up School Canyon trail (despite the name, it's all near ridge top and a lot of views - great trail) and camped near the only spring between the trailhead and Flag Point).The marker on the map shows my camp site. Day 2: up and down Flag Point. This section of trail has some ...
July 8, 2011 jon 5.5 miles 2,500 feet gained
The original plan was to take the Starway Trail to Little Baldy and Bluff Mountain, however once I hit this unnamed peak, I found a great place to hang out and decided to read for awhile instead. Great 360˚ views.
July 8 to July 9, 2011 Chris 4.5 miles 1,250 feet gained 1 night
A quick trip to Bull of the Woods. Left work, hit traffic, but made good time - those last few miles look like they have a lot of new gravel - I had fun messing with my traction control :) I was going to do a loop, but snow started at 4800ft, and, well, I've had enough for this year. The mosquitoes are out in force - I ended up hiking 2 miles in up past Dick...
July 8, 2011 Josh Mayer 7.5 miles 0 feet gained
Hit a few small trails in Copper Falls State Park, Wisconsin. The North Country Trail passes through. Lovely little hike (2 miles, partly out and back) through forest containing very old Lodgepole and Eastern White Pines, with Sugar Maple saplings glowing in the evening light. That was a spur off of the Doughboy Trail which is a Y-shaped encircling interpret...
July 8, 2011 ChurchFish 14.5 miles 3,250 feet gained
July 7, 2011 Debbi 7 miles 1,500 feet gained
July 7, 2011 Trainer Kim 13 miles 3,000 feet gained
Beautiful weather today! Great hike on the way up! Breezy with no bugs- woohoo! Summit was wind free and incredible! Coming down was tricky from the ridge down due to dry, dusty trail, but all in all, a great hike. That's 3x up in 10 days! Love this mountain!
July 7, 2011 Jen 8.5 miles 1,250 feet gained
What a beautiful emerald green color in this river. Many of the rocks are light blue to give this effect. I hiked the Siouxon Trail to the Chinook Trail, and crossed Chinook Creek below the falls. I then traversed downstream on the north side of Siouxon to Wildcat Creek. Instead of taking the trail, I had a delightful creek walk right up the Wildcat creekbed...
July 5, 2011 Jack K. 11 miles 2,750 feet gained
Amazing day, wonderful views, better wildflowers than Dog Mountain with no crowds
July 4, 2011 Christophe Deppe 4.5 miles 1,250 feet gained
July 4 to July 5, 2011 Chris 16.5 miles 3,750 feet gained 1 night
Last night I decided to do one more quick backpacking trip for the week. The drive to Table Rock is pretty quick - about 42 miles, 7 on gravel. For the first several miles to Table Rock I must have seen 35 people (including one guy crossing the snowfield with a baby carrier! hmmmm...), but then not a soul past the intersection towards Rooster. The trail betw...
July 4, 2011 Roman 4 miles 1,750 feet gained
Took my Mom to Hunchback Mountain. This trail is steep in places, but very nice once you gain the ridge. Rhododendrons are nice right now.
July 4, 2011 Eric Peterson 7.5 miles 1,000 feet gained
Couldn't stay indoors today, no way! Took the 8 year old twins on a easy hike to Ramona Falls. Yah! Man, they are finally getting good on some harder hikes! :) Was new to all of us, can't believe I've never been here before, well I can, but you know what I mean. I think this was the hike that my wife and I tried with our oldest daughter back in '98 or '99, w...
July 3, 2011 Joe Omundson 5 miles 500 feet gained
July 3 to July 6, 2011 Heather&Wein 21 miles 6,750 feet gained 3 nights
Took a few days to take advantage of our lottery permit to the Enchantments. After car camping the night before at nearby Lake Wenatchee SP (crowded - ugh), we left out of the Snow Lakes TH around 10 am and made it to Snow Lakes dam in about 5 hrs. Quite a long, steady, uphill climb. Passed over the dam, and then headed to the far southwest side of the lake ...
July 3 to July 4, 2011 Evan E 35 miles 0 feet gained 1 night
July 3, 2011 Christophe Deppe 1 miles 0 feet gained
July 3, 2011 Sirhikesalot1 2 miles 250 feet gained
Did a late evening hike with hopes of making it to the lookout. We got about half way in and started hitting some pretty good snow drifts back in the tree cover. Probably could've made it in, but she (the better half) would have never forgiven me if we had kept going... Still an enjoyable evening..
July 3 to July 4, 2011 Conner Dowling 8.5 miles 1,750 feet gained 1 night
Amazing little overnighter.
July 3, 2011 Chris 5 miles 1,250 feet gained
Socked in. Broke my camera (again). More snow. :/ Actually, the snow isn't bad, so long as you take the Chinidere cutoff trail (406M) from the lake. The plateau is a snowy swamp right now.
July 3, 2011 Chris 2 miles 500 feet gained
By this point, I had done too much, and I was pretty bummed after breaking my camera, so I quit after mile 1.0 or so. Kind of a neat trail, though. I'll be back to this one.
July 2, 2011 Joe Omundson 4.5 miles 1,250 feet gained
July 2, 2011 Jack K. 8 miles 1,250 feet gained
The flowers were late this year, but the views were amazing.
July 2 to July 4, 2011 Shane 8 miles 1,250 feet gained 2 nights
Spent a couple nights camping out at Grass Lake. We took the afternoon to climb up towards the Cracked Cragg, but snow stopped us short. It was an amazing trip, and I can't wait to go back in a year with normal snow-level.
July 2 to July 4, 2011 Kyle Meyer 8 miles 1,000 feet gained 2 nights
July 2, 2011 Christophe Deppe 8 miles 3,750 feet gained
