April 6, 2014 Karl Siouxon 8.5 miles 1,000 feet gained
Had a great walk in the woods with two good friends. Never been there before, but will certainly be going back. This is a delightful trail, suitable for nearly anyone.
Recent Hikes
April 6, 2014 Pablo Punch Bowl Falls 9.5 miles 4,000 feet gained
Looked for an anonymous ridge off Eagle Creek for some offtrail hiking and found one south of Sorenson Creek so I'm calling it Sorenson Ridge. A marvelous ridge, no brush, clear all the way up to the Benson Platter but I'll have to make another visit as there are views but today all openings were pretty much socked in. Gains 3200' in around 1.75 miles, unrel...
April 5, 2014 Mileage Mike Whistle Punk 12.2 miles 2,250 feet gained
April 5 to April 6, 2014 Eva Rees Badger Mountain 4 miles 250 feet gained 1 night
Spent the night close to Vantage, then drove out here for a little hiking. Trails are very unclear, but the area is easy to explore. Expansive views, tumbleweeds, and sand.
April 5, 2014 The Angry Hiker Tiger Mountain 3 miles 2,250 feet gained
Quick conditioning hike on a rainy day.
April 5, 2014 acorn woodpecker Horsetail Creek 11 miles 3,750 feet gained
Bosterson and I went up ROA via RJ, checked out the cabins, poked around off ROA ridge, and took Horsetail Creek Trail back down to Oneonta Creek for the standard return loop. The bypass to avoid the Oneonta ford is getting more and more defined. A wet day, particularly in the end.
April 5, 2014 Bosterson Horsetail Creek 11.5 miles 3,750 feet gained
Up RJ to the cabins, then up to ROA and down Horsetail Creek. Rainy!
April 4, 2014 Karl Bell Creek 25 miles 5,750 feet gained
Found an interesting way to loop Larch while the Benson Bridge is closed down at Multnomah Falls. Started out at Horsetail Falls, wandered up past Ponytail Falls, then up Oneonta Creek to Triple Falls. Where the trail bridges across Oneonta, a bypass on the east side of the creek took me up to Horsetail Creek Trail, which I followed up to Bell Creek Trail. B...
April 4, 2014 Jen Doane Creek 6 miles 1,750 feet gained
Quick morning hike before climbing wall practice
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April 4, 2014 Allison Catherine Creek Shortcut 11 miles 2,500 feet gained
Up Tracy Hill, dry-footed crossing of Catherine Creek, traverse along Atwood Road to Coyote Wall, down Little Maui, up Hidden Valley, past the Indian Pits, and back around. A glorious day of sunshine, rainbows, and desert parsley.
April 2, 2014 fox1 Cape Lookout 5 miles 500 feet gained
April 2, 2014 Team Reynolds Cattail Lake 11 miles 2,500 feet gained
Sometimes its not climbing something that gives you the best view, it is looking at it from the right perspective. This hike up to the canyon below the cliffs of Table Mountain is underrated. The trail is gentle and scenic once you get up the OHV path and the visible layers in the remnants of Table Mountain are no less than geology porn. Aldrich Butte is a s...
April 2, 2014 Woodswalker Catherine Creek Shortcut 6 miles 1,250 feet gained
Beautiful views, a multitude of seeps/ mini springs and flowers still a bit sparse at the higher elevation. Nice lower.
April 1, 2014 Woodswalker Coopey Falls 6.4 miles 1,500 feet gained
Great day, misty mountains, roaring creeks and enjoyable April fools day tales from chance met hikers along the way.
April 1, 2014 Father Guido Sarducci Chambers Creek Reservoir 4.26 miles 1,000 feet gained
April 1, 2014 Allison Catherine Creek Shortcut 10 miles 2,750 feet gained
Up and then down on switchbacks fun for mtbers, not hikers, and then up, up, and up past private property to the top of Coyote Wall, then down, down, down Coyote Wall, then down Little Maui, up Hidden Valley, then Indian Pits, then up and over the Catherine Creek syncline, then a bunch of off-trail wandering on that big flank-o-hill west of Catherine Creek. ...
March 31, 2014 LydiaVMars Memaloose Creek 3 miles 0 feet gained
I toured this set of decommissioned tunnels & roads that run along the Memaloose Creek & South Fork of the Clackamas River on my birthday this year. We started from Memaloose Road and the first decommissioned forest road. The hike in to the first cliff isn't bad. However, when you reach the edge to begin the decent to the creek edge it's very tough. Luckily ...
March 31, 2014 LydiaVMars Memaloose Creek 3 miles 0 feet gained
I toured this set of decommissioned tunnels & roads that run along the Memaloose Creek & South Fork of the Clackamas River on my birthday this year. We started from Memaloose Road and the first decommissioned forest road. The hike in to the first cliff isn't bad. However, when you reach the edge to begin the decent to the creek edge it's very tough. Luckily ...
March 30, 2014 Mileage Mike Pine Creek 8.8 miles 1,250 feet gained
March 30, 2014 JM Skamania Island 14 miles 3,500 feet gained
Some fun scrambles, GPS heavily needed on unmarked, unmaintained trails around sensitive areas. Great views, good weather for the most part.
March 30, 2014 Debbi Balfour-Klickitat Day Use 5 miles 1,000 feet gained
March 30, 2014 Father Guido Sarducci Point Defiance 4.3 miles 1,000 feet gained
Wet, muddy & sloppy.
March 29, 2014 Mileage Mike 13 miles 750 feet gained
March 29, 2014 Chris Wagner Butte 9.5 miles 2,500 feet gained
A great little hike up a trail popular with Ashland runners. Stopped about 1/2 mile before the summit due to the snow depth—it got to be about 1/2 foot deep with no prior tracks.
March 29, 2014 Team Reynolds Enid Lake 3.5 miles 500 feet gained
I like snowshoeing more when we're breaking trail. Kurt's Connection to Glacier View and Back up Pioneer Bridal was all just us and the tracks were almost gone from the recent snows (nice), after we hit Enid Lake Loop it was just following the channel... but we only saw a few people out today so it was nice. Spent 20 minutes by ourselves at the lake and made...
March 29, 2014 Pablo Horsetail Falls 10 miles 3,250 feet gained
Tested new 64s Garmin GPS+GLONASS against a 62s GPS in a canyon - went up Oneonta Tr to Franklin Ridge starting from Horsetail Falls. Got rained on, lots. Results inconclusive.
March 28, 2014 Team Reynolds Jackson Bottom 3 miles 0 feet gained
Tired of being trapped by the deluge we found a hole in the storms and ran to Hillsboro for a quick look around the wetlands. Some trails are still a little flooded but lots of wildlife out enjoying the sun with us.
March 28, 2014 Jen Devils Rest 10.5 miles 3,250 feet gained
Rained all day, but the temp was mild and everyone's feet stayed dry. Because of the moisture and the well known route, I traveled this hike without my glasses on. It was an interesting experience to observe everything in 'soft focus'. Quite beautiful, big trees and so many shades of green, and it was nice to see all the burgeoning foliage of the delphiniums...
March 25, 2014 Nat Turner Martis Peak 8.8 miles 2,000 feet gained
Windy and Low pressure on the way. Everyone else bailed about halfway. Summitted solo, and called for a ride at at trailhead.
March 24, 2014 Stacey Saddle Mountain 5 miles 1,500 feet gained
Good hike for a lazy, sunny day.
March 24, 2014 Nat Turner Eagle Falls 2 miles 750 feet gained
Went strolling with the parents. Saw a tree filled with concrete. Old school vibes.
March 24, 2014 Nat Turner Lake Tahoe Basin Management Unit 6.5 miles 1,750 feet gained
Beautiful Day.
March 24, 2014 acorn woodpecker Angels Rest 4 miles 2,000 feet gained
Had a wild hair after work and went somewhere close and uncrowded. Angel's Rest TH had at least 40 cars at 5pm! Walked up Palmer Mill Road a quarter mile before cutting up the ridge west of "Pablo's Ridge" on the west side of the small creek. Nice and open cross country/elk trails for the first half with a steep grassy cliff band at 800 ft. After that, a bur...
March 24, 2014 Karl Silver Star Mountain 7.5 miles 2,500 feet gained
The forecast was for sunny and 70°! Was there any real choice here? Did a quick run up Silver Star with my sons - their first trip up there. On the way up, had a fun scramble up Pyramid Rock. Still more snow up high than I'd expected to find, but totally navigable on the beaten paths. We nixed a side-trip over to the Vision Pits on the south ridge, as it see...
March 24, 2014 JM Horny Hollow 2 miles 250 feet gained
Riverside Lunch-time oasis before heading back to PDX. What a beauty spot!
March 23, 2014 Mileage Mike Moody Island 12.3 miles 500 feet gained
March 23, 2014 Stacey Twin Falls 7.5 miles 750 feet gained
Part trail run, part hike, part sightseeing. Fun way to spend a sunny day.
March 23, 2014 JM Lower Canyon Creek Campground 6 miles 250 feet gained
Exploratory hike from Canyon Creek CG along the Metolius River on a gorgeous Spring day. Hiked 3 miles to Wizard Falls Fish Hatchery where the baby salmon are coming along nicely. Had lunch on the riverside and hiked back to the car at the campground. Continued to auto-tour the area and found more CG's and a nice viewpoint of the Cascade range. The headwater...
March 23, 2014 Elsie Augspurger Mountain 14 miles 5,500 feet gained
March 23, 2014 Team Reynolds Catherine Creek Shortcut 10.5 miles 2,750 feet gained
What a great first trip to this amazing area! So many different kinds of trails and environments all in one hike and still more to go see that we didn't get to. The rock arch, flocks of Stellar Jays, water cascades like they were built by Disney, cliffs everywhere... Second favorite hike ever.
March 23, 2014 The Angry Hiker Mount Si 8.5 miles 3,250 feet gained
The plan was to run up Mailbox Peak and vandalize the mailbox, as I do every Spring, but it looked like the peak got a ton of new snow during the week. That trail is a slog when it's dry - only an insane Irishmen or a middle aged man with something to prove would climb it ass-deep in snow. So I decided to do Mount Si instead. Si was compact snow most of the ...
March 23, 2014 Debbi Catherine Creek Shortcut 4 miles 1,000 feet gained
March 23, 2014 Bosterson Augspurger Mountain 14 miles 5,500 feet gained
Alpine start at noon. Up the middle trail to Dog. Windy at the summit! Then out to Aug, mild snow. Nice views out the back door. Sunset at the junction with Dog and back to the car via headlamp around 8:45. Yay spring!
March 23, 2014 Chris Little Acorn Woman 2.5 miles 500 feet gained
This is a busy little area in the Applegate, for being set so far back as it is.
March 23, 2014 Father Guido Sarducci Huckleberry Mountain 6.89 miles 2,000 feet gained
Hiked to the second viewpoint.
March 23, 2014 Woodswalker Horsetail Falls 6.8 miles 1,750 feet gained
Beautiful day, lots of green.
March 23, 2014 Allison City of Portland Reservoir Number 3 6.5 miles 1,000 feet gained
Glorious spring day! So many people on the Wildwood! So many "good mornings!" and "hellos!". So awesome that we have this incredible place in our city.
March 22, 2014 Roman Multnomah Falls 5 miles 1,500 feet gained
