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Hikes by Rhonda in 2016
December 3, 2016 4 miles 500 feet gained
Quick trip to Peavy for a short hike with my best friend.
November 20, 2016 6 miles 1,000 feet gained
Took my friend up to Triangulation Peak for a quick morning hike in the snow. Not much on road to TH at the time, but guessing TH is covered now. Did not go down to Boca on this trip.
November 6, 2016 12 miles 2,750 feet gained
Finally got out for a solid jaunt with my bestie last Sunday. Did an extended loop around Multnomah Falls. Up Wahkeena heading towards Devil's Rest, going off trail a bit to the basin and on down to Nesika and the ornament trail. Was a seriously much needed outing that I am feeling a bit with how bad of hiking shape I'm in these days.
October 22, 2016 6.5 miles 1,000 feet gained
Took my friend up to Marion Lake - Marion Falls for a quick Saturday hike. It's been a crazy few months and I have not gotten out much so this trip felt really good. May have only been a few miles but to just get "out" in the woods again, felt fabulous!!
September 22, 2016 2 miles 0 feet gained
Went to Davis Bayou while out in Mississippi visiting my son. Short little stroll, saw a box turtle meandering around the trail, a juvenile alligator, and an adult alligator. I saw the adult resident one 4 years ago when I went and let me tell you she got much bigger. Sadly the ranger said folks are feeding her. Some people are not very bright. She now comes...
September 15, 2016 3 miles 500 feet gained
Did a short, quick hike at Drift Creek Falls to relax me before my trip out to the east coast. Later in the day, not too many people out. I picked the perfect spot that day.
September 9, 2016 3.5 miles 500 feet gained
Quick closed to home,after work hike with my son who is at home visiting. :)
August 21, 2016 4.5 miles 250 feet gained
Took a solo day road trip. Stopped here for pictures and decided to enjoy the lake loop. Great stroll!
August 6, 2016 13 miles 2,250 feet gained
After my Diamond Peak fail, I decided I must start getting back out and hiking again so picked a favorite of mine Jeff Park. Was a beautiful, sunny day with a light breeze that kept most of the hike really cool. It didn't start to warm up too much until about 1 pm when we started our hike out. Fantastic day, slightly dampened by all the SAR in and around the...
July 30, 2016 10 miles 2,750 feet gained
So a bit on yesterday's climbing fail for me. I had driving directions to trailhead but not much of a map so I went to google put in the trailhead, double checked it was right by looking basecamp and printed the map and directions. Sadly google failed me for the first time (google's directions were no where near Sulivan's directions) The last 7 miles of road...
July 25, 2016 3.5 miles 500 feet gained
Quick closed to home,after work hike to get outside and in nature. 2nd trip in 3 days.
July 22, 2016 3.5 miles 500 feet gained
Quick closed to home,after work hike to get outside and in nature.
July 16 to July 17, 2016 4 miles 0 feet gained 1 night
Spent weekend at Smith climbing agian.
July 9, 2016 4.5 miles 250 feet gained
More hiking in and out to climbing spots. Mark was lazy and made me take the long way to the spot as opposed to climbing over Asterisk's Pass. I'll take the mileage though because my hiking mileage is not so hot this year with my newfound hobby. :)
July 3, 2016 8 miles 2,250 feet gained
I have climbing fever but have been missing hiking so took a quick jaunt to a near by favorite hike that would make me climb a bit and whine a bit lol.
June 26, 2016 1.5 miles 0 feet gained
June 19, 2016 10 miles 1,500 feet gained
Did this lovely hike taken from Matt Reeders 101 Hikes in the Majestic Mount Jefferson Region. Not a bad way to spend a Sunday, however some notes. The good: Had the hike to ourselves. Only saw two people coming off Marion Mountain summit the entire hike, other than that not a soul to be seen. Its a fantastic viewpoint with an easy grade to get to. No huffin...
June 16, 2016 4.5 miles 1,000 feet gained
Rock Climbing is becoming a small obsession. I imagine I will get some more hiking mileage at Smith this year.
June 1, 2016 2.5 miles 500 feet gained
hiking mileage to two different climb spots at Smith Rock State Park
May 30, 2016 21.5 miles 4,500 feet gained
Had a fantastic day with good trail friends. Took an all day stroll around the amazing Mount St. Helens. Doesn't get much better than this!
May 29, 2016 8 miles 0 feet gained
Went up to Whitewater with the intention of seeing how far in we could get until it became mostly snow. Got as far as Whitewater creek. Snow started steadily in the talus fields right before the creek. There was on long section at mile 2.5ish that lasted about 1/8th to a 1/4 mile but then cleared out until the talus fields. The snow looked to be steady from ...
May 28, 2016 5 miles 1,000 feet gained
Had a quick trip up to Triangulation Peak. Patched of snow to content with mostly at beginning and then steadily at the end. Boca Cave was clear to get down to.
May 14, 2016 3 miles 750 feet gained
Did some rock climbing out at Smith Rock State Park this weekend for the first time. Only did a few miles of hiking into and out of the spots where my group climbed.
May 10, 2016 4.5 miles 750 feet gained
Did a short 4.75 mile trip around part of Silver Falls after work to relieve stress. It's my go to close to home spot for those times that I don't have much time.
May 8, 2016 11.5 miles 6,000 feet gained
I got the opportunity to climb Mount St. Helen's via the worm flows route (not my favorite but wasn't so bad this round) on Mother's day and jumped on it. Talk about crazy busy, but in all honesty it was so much fun that the crowds didn't bother me for once. Day started off cloudy and drizzly but as you can tell from the pictures, once we broke through the c...
April 22, 2016 5.5 miles 1,500 feet gained
Took a short jaunt on the Wilson River Trail today. Was thinking a nice low elevation, river hike on a rainy day fit the bill, except for there was no river and it had quite a bit more elevation than I had anticipated lol. Isn't that how it usually works though? Tons more out here I want to explore and I anticipate I'll be back here soon to do so.
April 17, 2016 8.5 miles 1,500 feet gained
Went to visit the wildflowers of Dalles Mountain Ranch for the first time. Absolutely beautiful. Busy, but a great day for this hike even if I got a tad red from it.
April 10, 2016 5.5 miles 2,750 feet gained
This is a calf burner of a hike and I really needed one. What I did not need was the vertigo episode to happen this morning. I have been suffering with it for a month and it really showed it's ugly head today. Cancelled my plans of doing the full loop. The Backside of King's is very steep and was wet and slippery. Decided best not to try that while I wobbly....
April 3, 2016 2 miles 250 feet gained
Wanted something close by that I could trail run. Opal Creek was destination however the roads were awful so stopped and did a quick 2 miler at Henline Falls.
April 2, 2016 9 miles 2,000 feet gained
Planned to snowshoe up by Coldwater. Ended up carrying them the whole way. Went up past the equipment and then did some wandering in the area.
March 27, 2016 4.5 miles 1,250 feet gained
Finally got a small hike in. Plan B backup hike. Stahlman Point. Marion Lake needs snowshoes (didn't plan thoroughly enough), and they had a search and rescue happening (found safe thankfully).
February 27, 2016 10 miles 250 feet gained
Did 10 miles on the Klickitat Rail Trail from the Lyle Trail head. First time on this trail. Have to say not my favorite of trails I have been on. Don't care too much seeing 142 and traffic while I hike. I tend to like things a bit more secluded which is why we turned around at mile 5. Next time I think I will check out Swale Canyon and hike down that way. M...
February 6, 2016 26.5 miles 1,000 feet gained
After reading Karl's trip report from a few weeks ago, I just had to get back out here. Yesterday's forecast was partly sunny with no rain and that beat any potential soggy weather on the westside. We got sun in the morning and clouds in early afternoon then back to sunny sky's as the afternoon wore on. Decided once we got to the homestead that I was too clo...
January 24, 2016 8 miles 1,250 feet gained
Went back out to Maxwell Butte Sno-Park and visited the areas shelters, South Maxwell and Mountain View Shelter. What a fantastic day for snowshoeing. No wind and plenty of fresh snow and lightly snowing most of the day.
January 10, 2016 6.5 miles 1,250 feet gained
Did a quick snowshoe up to Twin Lakes via Maxwell Sno-Park. Just getting the feel for snowshoeing.
January 2, 2016 5 miles 1,000 feet gained
Took our first snowshoe trip to South Coldwater Trail. Unfortunately had to cut the day short about a 1/4 to 1/2 mile away from the equipment. The sustained winds were bad enough to knock Mark over and make me have to sit down to avoid being tossed down the hill. Regardless, we had a blast for our first time snowshoeing!