Today’s hike was a spur of the minute hike. I had originally intended to stay home and work on a Christmas present for our granddaughters. The weather was supposed to be beautiful and some recent snow had mostly melted. I
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Hikes and trips in 2023
12/9/2023 – Burnt Granite – SNOW! – 595
We’ve had some cold weather and a bunch of rain, so higher elevations have gotten more snow. Looking at the modeled snow maps, I was hoping we might be able to get up to a last of the season higher
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The weather forecast was for beautiful sunny weather. I keep thinking that the high country is gone – we’ve had a few snow storms which seemed like they would stick, but the snow melted, and higher elevations have still been
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This trip was just a “get out in the woods” kind of a trip. We were dog sitting the “grand dog” for the weekend, so he joined Thor and I on this trip. I had several ideas on where to
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Sorry for the small map above – I wanted to make sure I captured the waypoint of the tread I recalled being shown years ago – more on that later…
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9/10-9/14/2023 – Necklace Valley Backpack
This trip was my annual backpacking trip with Carly – number 20! These are all the backpacking trips we’ve taken:
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- 2004-Red Lake
- 2005-Shining Lake
- 2006-Big Slide Lake – Bull of the Woods Wilderness
- 2007-Doris
9/4/2023 – Schreiner Peak
Today’s hike is one I’ve wanted to do for a long time. Kirk suggested we do it on Labor Day. I will be doing my annual backpack trip with Carly next weekend and needed to do some conditioning anyway, so
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Today’s hike was one where I wanted to hike a trail I hadn’t hiked in a while. I was thinking about doing the north end of Rho Ridge but it was forecast to be kind of warm and I thought
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Today’s hike was a “take Friday off” hike – I planned a short day since we normally babysit the grandkids on Friday. Thor and I headed out early so we could get back early and I decided to do the
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Today’s trip was a totally unplanned, last minute trip. We were on our family vacation in Lincoln City and we were kind of in-between “things”. Abby stayed at a house in Lincoln City a month or so ago and had
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Today’s hike was originally going to be a work day on another trail, but that fell thru. I decided to do an easier hike today after the last few hikes. On the last hike I had kind of wanted to
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Today’s hike was spurred by some info I got from a friend last week at a meeting of the Trail Advocates. A new waterfall had been found after the fires opened things up. It was a pretty tall waterfall and
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Today’s hike was different than many I’ve done recently. The weather on Saturday was forecast to be really nice, which turned out to be very accurate. I wanted to get out, and after some discussion with Kirk, we decided to
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Today’s hike was a relatively simple plan – one which I’ve done before. The idea is to drive up the 4614 road as far as you can to catch the Fanton trail, and then hike it up as far as
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Today’s hike was my annual New Years Day hike – I’ve done it 10 of the last 12 years. Since you can now legally enter burned areas on foot, we decided to head up the old Fish Creek road (road
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