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December 30, 2011 15.5 miles 3,000 feet gained
Always wanted to go as far as I could up old Tanner Creek Trail 431, it used to actually go all the way up into the Bull Run but of course the sillies closed that all off and now poor old 431 is barely even there anymore... :( Was fun anyway! :) Happy New Year!!
December 24, 2011 16 miles 5,500 feet gained
Woooooo!! One of the best hikes this year for me!! Major thanks to Bosterson for going on this one with me :))
December 17, 2011 22 miles 5,250 feet gained
Great hike with some pretty funny and loony guys! :)
December 10, 2011 24 miles 5,500 feet gained
Awesome big wintry hike with 4 PH legends!
December 3, 2011 8.5 miles 3,250 feet gained
I guess if I want better looking pictures I should buy a better camera. Stupid thing seems to just constantly take out of focus images on the right side even after trying everything. Fun little 'schwack loop. Took me about 4 hours just to go from the Kings TH up to the 3 way junction. I did doddle quite a bit though and only cliffed out once. Not very many k...
November 25, 2011 19 miles 4,250 feet gained
Broke 200k' of EG and Mayhem took some pictures, heheh :)
November 19, 2011 20 miles 3,500 feet gained
Oh my... Meet Magnus and Mayhem in Amboy right before 5:00 and Magnus shuttled us up to the Siouxon Creek TH in his AWD. Was snowing right down to 1200' but there was only a few inches of accumulation at the TH parking area. Headed on Siouxon Creek trail to Chinook Falls and forded again using the decent log that is there. Stayed out of snow shoes all the wa...
November 12, 2011 20 miles 5,250 feet gained
15th hike with Captain Defiance! Wow! 11 Saturday's in a row too hiking with him. Amazing that we have not killed each other!! :)) Siouxon Creek area is first rate even when you have no view and are rained in! Hiked with 3 new fellers too - Brad, Magnus and Dave. Thought maybe we would see Chris since he suggested the hike and the open invite was just that, ...
November 6, 2011 5 miles 2,500 feet gained
November 4, 2011 20 miles 5,500 feet gained
Fun day hike from Wyeth up to Defiance. Snow started around 2800' and there is 4" on top of Defiance.
October 30, 2011 20 miles 5,000 feet gained
7:00 am meetup at Horsetail Falls TH. Peder, Thum, Don Nelsen, Mayhem and myself. Took the RJ up to both cabins but this time DN took us up the correct way to the 2nd cabin. :) Bushwhacked from the 2nd cabin up to Horsetail Creek trail to head over to Bell Creek Way that got us up to 424. Crossed Larch Mt. area using 446 to get over to 441 for the 3rd cabin ...
October 22, 2011 26.5 miles 7,500 feet gained
Had a fun trip bringing Crusak back to health!
October 15, 2011 31.5 miles 6,250 feet gained
Woo hoo! Great hike guys! Thanks again for the great day! :) Meet Mayhem and Thum at around 6:00 am at the Herman Creek campground trail head. The gate is still open to park up above Forest Lane but the campground is closed for the winter. Thum engineered this one, about 32 miles for the day and 6300 EG. Herman Creek, 406, up to Tomlike spur trail for a awes...
October 8, 2011 25 miles 5,000 feet gained
Met Mayhem, again, sigh, at the Multnomah Falls Lodge HWY 30 parking lot at about 6:12 am. He had to go potty really bad, #2, so he was a bit late meeting up with me as he was busy trying to find a open toidy. I guess he found one down at the Ainsworth CG. Hit up the Wakkeena return trail from the lodge area to get started. Filled up a water bottle at the Wa...
October 1, 2011 23 miles 6,000 feet gained
Larch MT. out and back then over to Ainsworth loop area to catch the 400 up to Russ Jolley out and back. Rained. Pictures at the end are out of order again even though I tried to make everyone's different camera dates and times the same :)) OMG, I finally figured out how to make everyone's different date and time stamps all the same in Winblows so the pictur...
September 24, 2011 12.5 miles 5,000 feet gained
Made last minute hiking plans that was going to be also a Nesmith after Defiance for a DN hike but had to settle on just a single Defiance today :) Fun time hiking with my TFF Mayhem... ❤ ❤ ❤
September 17, 2011 10.5 miles 4,000 feet gained
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September 9, 2011 25 miles 10,250 feet gained
This was supposed to be a Mt. Hood 1 day around hood hike, but what with the fires and all we had to change it up and do something different. Behold! I give you the DWTHB all in one day loony hike! Met up with Guy, Cascadehiker and Mayhem right around 5:00 am @ Dog MT. to start the pentuplet. [attachment=14]Start.jpg[/attachment] Made pretty good time being ...
September 5, 2011 26 miles 4,500 feet gained
Laggy and Draggy went for a day hike.
August 30, 2011 6 miles 2,500 feet gained
'Recliner Hike' after the Ice Lake trip to 'recon' Chief Joseph trail/MT ascent. Somewhat of a precursor for the hike that follows this one. I needed a quick little recliner hike to keep my knee from totally whacking out on me after the longish 19 mile Ice Lake hike. Went up to the Chief Joseph trail from the South Wallowa Sate Park TH and found their nice f...
August 29, 2011 19 miles 3,500 feet gained
Took the family over to Wallowa State Park for some camping fun! Did a few hikes while we were there. Cruised up to Ice Lake and had the track from Water's climbing mate for the Matterhorn thinking I could tackle this whole thing in one shot. Hhehe. Luckily some thunder and lightning activity while I was breaking at Ice Lake changed my mind, another day for ...
August 20, 2011 29 miles 7,000 feet gained
Started from Herman Creek TH with Don and Mayhem at about 7:00 am. Don promptly took Mayhem and I up a short cut to go around something and get up to Gorton Creek Trail a little faster. Headed up Gorton Creek to hit Indian Point. Got some good pictures and movie of Don scrambling up there. Cruised up Gorton past Deadwood and Ridge camps and met a nice trail ...
August 13, 2011 32 miles 6,500 feet gained
I was 10 minutes early arriving at 4:50 am, extra day hike bonus points for me. I think we started hiking at about 5:25 or so through the Eagle Creek Campground with headlamps waking up dogs and tent campers, although with the trains and freeway I don't know how anything could sleep there anyway. Mayhem and I went up Ruckel Ridge in 2 hours 45 minutes, slow ...
August 5, 2011 14 miles 5,250 feet gained
Got to the Yeon State Park TH around 9 am. Hiked up a mile and half and realized I left my cell phone plugged into the car charger in plain site so I had to hoof it back down and get it out. Guess I was trying to do a epic hill repeat hike! Glad it was only about 1200' of gain to redo. Just did a normal hiker hike today and kept the gain under 10k'. Was gett...
July 30, 2011 24 miles 11,000 feet gained
Quad Dog Challenge 2011 - Arundodonax aka Chris, double dog dared Justin to do a 4 Dog Mt hike. Mayhem must have seen them having the convo over on WH.com and wanted in and texted me Thurs. night for a invite. I said yes. :) I'm crazy. Got up around 3:10 am to meet Justin and Mayhem at Dog MT. Was suppose to be a 5 am meet up. I made it there about 5 after 5...
July 23, 2011 10.5 miles 4,000 feet gained
Snuck up on Mayhem and Crusak since I was a tad late. Mayhem's dog caught me though! I parked at about the half way point along the Wilson River HWY, had to 'schwack a bit through some stickery stuff to finally meet up with those guys. Roy was meeting us at the junction that shoots up to Elk but he left a note saying 'Roy up Elk', so we met Roy on top of Elk...
July 17, 2011 14.5 miles 3,500 feet gained
Eric aka er0ck and I did a big off trail hike today. Found both 3 walled slant to RJ cabins. Off trailed it a lot to get a connection to ROA. Went up a bit to almost Yeon MT. area looking for the Mystery Trail, never saw it. Turned around and went towards the Horsetail Creek/Oneonta Creek ford area. Broke out my machete and Eric used his mini trimmers and we...
July 10, 2011 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 4, 2011 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 2, 2011 11 miles 5,000 feet gained
Almost made it in time to join Mayhem, CascadeHiker and Justin for at least a single Defiance attempt for me while they were going for the DDD, triple D. I wanted to do double Defiance at least but my knee just wasn't up for it. Those 3 guys were already gone walking along the freeway part of the 'trail' that gets you to Defiance as I was pulling in, flashed...
June 25, 2011 10 miles 2,750 feet gained
Exciting day spent with Don Nelsen and his son Paul exploring the cliffs of Table MT. Don also took us over to the Greenleaf slide, wow! Also Went up Greenleaf falls to his rope and got the GPS mark for it now, cool stuff. Don and Paul were a ton of fun! :) Met at the Aldrich Butte TH at 9, also was supposed to meet up with Pablo but that didn't connect for ...
June 19, 2011 16 miles 4,250 feet gained
Started down at Wahkeena around 11 am. Made good time up to a point under Devils Rest to cut across some old logging roads to get up to Larch Mountain road. Ran into one of my daughters class mates on the remote logging road, they were doing a 3 sons and a dad Fathers Day hike of some sort. Figured out later that they parked at the yet closed Larch Mountain ...
June 10, 2011 18.5 miles 7,250 feet gained
Started with a warm up on Hamilton on the WA side. No sweat, quickie hike while it's still free. Cruised over to Defiance to hike that trail, did Starvation 2 weeks and I still think Defiance is steeper going up. But I was not fresh as I just did Hamilton. My biggest 1 day gain ever, S Sister was close, but today topped it I think... Knee - started Hamilton ...
June 4, 2011 6.5 miles 2,250 feet gained
Pablo from PDX HIkers turned me onto this one. I also had been wondering about a way to get from Wauna Viewpoint to Wauna Point. Well there is a way, a very steep, slow and brushy way. Took me about 2 hours to gain about 1000', but the views were great the entire time! Had the audacity to show up at Eagle Creek at around 3 pm, but did find a spot to park. Ma...
May 28, 2011 11.5 miles 5,000 feet gained
Messed up and went the easier way via Starvation Creek trail up to the Mt. Defiance microwave installation. I went down Mt. Defiance trail thinking it was the easier on the knees route, guess I better read my trail descriptions first before leaving the house again. Fun hike in deep snow after the 4k' level and put snow shoes on soon thereafter, no views thou...
May 21, 2011 18 miles 5,000 feet gained
Over 5000' and almost 18 mile hike around Table Mountain area. Not sure I made it to Greenleaf Falls, there was sign for Cave Falls where I turned around and thought that was the alternate name for Greenleaf, but it looks like there is a trail on the other side of the raging falls/stream, no way I was going to cross that after doing everything else today. Yu...
May 20, 2011 6 miles 3,000 feet gained
Did West Ridge of Kings MT. Scramble harder than any of the areas other off trail scrambles, but has the most views. Also tracked Kings JR, but still was off a bit, but have a really good idea now of how to do Kings JR loop correctly. Will make a more in depth trip report on PDX Hikers, but added captions to all the pictures that I uploaded here. :)
May 18, 2011 5.5 miles 1,000 feet gained
Testing my new Garmin GPSmap 62s. Worked great and was able to load FREE custom NW Topos and NW Trails maps. Started on Vista Ave. and hiked up to Japanese Gardens to catch Wildwood and up to Pittock Mansion. 5.7 miles with just over 1000 ft gain, nice to finally have more solid stats! Can't wait to get out onto some trails this weekend :)
May 15, 2011 8 miles 3,000 feet gained
Well, I have a pretty good idea of where the Kings JR trail goes through all the blow down to hit the Wilson River Trail intersection, had to check this out again today and will probably make one more trip to follow the correct path this time. Tried it twice today and the first time I dumped out further away then the return trip try but took some pictures of...
May 10, 2011 5.5 miles 1,000 feet gained
Started at the Japanese Garden and hiked up through the Hoyt Arboretum down to Burnside using the Wildwood trail that runs through Forest Park. Crossing Burnside after work at rush hour was a thrill all in itself! Hiked up to Pittock and down the back to Cornell and made a small balloon out of this by coming back up Upper MaCleay trail that meets Wildwood an...
May 8, 2011 8 miles 3,000 feet gained
Started at Kings Mountain trail head, went west on the Wilson River trail to check out Lester Creek and look for those C and CASS blue markers Mayhem mentioned on PDX Hikers. Went back to get up Kings JR that intersects with Kings MT trail at the 2200' level, cruised up to Kings and met a nice young couple warning me not to make the Kings to Elk traverse. Ha...
May 1, 2011 11 miles 3,500 feet gained
Started at the Oneonta TH parking area headed up to Triple Falls to cross the bridge. Then about 3/10ths of a mile headed up the rock debris field to hit Horsetail Creek Trail. Hit that trail to get to the Bell Creek Way trail to make a balloon loop back over to Oneonta trail to get back to the car. A lot of up and down on this, probably even more than the 3...
April 22, 2011 9 miles 1,250 feet gained
Family dropped me off right before the fee station at Ecola State park and I tromped with my dog over to Seaside Shilo Inn, 9 miles but not terrible elevation. Family had good time playing around in Seaside and I met them for dinner at Doogers, yum. Awesome clear weather and the trail was pretty empty once I got past Indian Point areas. My dog Buddy and I ha...
April 17, 2011 10 miles 3,750 feet gained
Finally made it to the top of Nesmith Point. Still needed snow shoes starting after the second saddle at 2800', but the snow is finally receeding. Micro spikes would have been ok as well. Saw 9 other people on the way down and chatted with a few. I think one of the couples I talked to are also on Went Hiking since he mentioned he tried NP on this past Wednes...
April 13, 2011 5 miles 500 feet gained
Using the site to also document my after work Forest Park hike conditioning jogs.
April 12, 2011 5 miles 500 feet gained
Using the site to also document my after work Forest Park hike conditioning jogs, sorry. :)
April 11, 2011 5 miles 750 feet gained
Hike/Run through parts of Forest Park, up and down a few times totaling at least 750', missed the last 2 weekends for hiking, trying to make up with some Forest Park hikes/runs after work this week...
March 27, 2011 8.5 miles 2,750 feet gained
Nice little warm up semi loop starting at the gated Herman Creek work center taking Herman Creek, 406, up to Gorton Creek trail. Hiked up about 2.5 miles to the Ridge Cut off trail to connect over to Nick Eaton trail to head back down to 406 and the gated TH. Lots of snow starting at 2500'. The actual elevation gain for this hike is about 2900 but logged 275...
March 12, 2011 9.5 miles 3,500 feet gained
Second attempt in 2011, almost got to Nesmith Point Road from looking at my phones GPS tracks but it felt like I was already way down Horsetail Creek Trail so I turned arounda dn headed back. Up to 4' of snow, with fresh snow falling as I tromped around, nice good snow shoe today!
