Today’s hike promised to be an interesting one. I was considering doing it the day before but the weather report didn’t look great – given what I encountered I’m REALLY glad I delayed. It was quite an adventurous day – … Read the rest
Tag Archives: Abandoned
Refers to trips on abandoned trails or roads
10/19/2026 – Cache Meadow, Grouse Point, Serene Lake and Three Lynx Way Trails – 702, 517, 512
Today’s trip was intended to be a different destination, but since Oliver was not able to come, we decided to do another loop that I’ve been looking at. It turned out to be an awesome trip!
We got a bit … Read the rest
7/1/2026 – Baty Butte to the Powerlines – 545
Today’s trip was another in the “get out in the woods” series of hikes. I decided to head down Baty Butte – the plan was to try and make it to the Powerlines. I was successful, but it was a … Read the rest
6/11/2026 – White Iris/Old Baldy
Today’s trip was intended to be a short day – the only real objective of the day was to see if we could catch the white iris in full bloom – I’ve seen them blooming before but I’ve never been … Read the rest
6/8/2026 – Random Eastside Explorations
Today’s trip was a totally different trip than what I usually do. The original plan was to hike the White Iris trail to see if the iris were in full bloom yet, but the weather forecast kept getting worse and … Read the rest
5/2/2026 – Tarzan Springs to Mt Lowe – 595, 564
Today’s trip had a couple of purposes:
… Read the rest - Replace my trail cam at the second rockslide – the battery was at 7%
- Try and make it up to Mt Lowe
The second objective was a little ambitious, but I’ve done this
4/23/2026 – Baty Butte Trail – 545
Today’s hike was kind of a spur of the moment hike. The weather report was supposed to be sunny (spoiler alert – it was wrong), so I thought I’d head out somewhere. I was considering heading up to Burnt Granite
… Read the rest 3/21/2026 – Tarzan Springs to Burnt Granite to Mt Lowe – 595, 564
Today’s hike had no real objective – at least not when I started. Originally I was thinking of heading up Burnt Granite from the 4650 road and maybe take it up to where it meets the 270 spur and then
… Read the rest 2/25/2026 – Old North Fork Trail to Huxley Lake – 521
Today’s hike was pretty much a “get out in the woods and enjoy a beautiful winter day” hike. My goal in retirement has been to hike twice a week and with recent weather, I’ve been having a tough time making
… Read the rest 1/24/2026 – Cottonwood Meadows Snowshoe – 705
The plan for today’s trip was to head to the lower Cottonwood Meadows trailhead and walk up as far as we could until we hit enough snow and then put on our snowshoes and go as far up as we
… Read the rest 1/21/2026 – Rho Creek – 569
With all the nice weather the last week or so, I’ve wanted to try and get out as much as I can. The beginning of the month was terrible weather so I wasn’t getting my two hikes a week in.
… Read the rest 11/20/2025 – Burnt Granite Trail – 595
Today’s hike was a “make up” hike. I’ve been fighting a cold for the past week and was supposed to go hiking with Oliver the day before. I wasn’t sure if I was going to feel up to it, but
… Read the rest 10/20/2025 – Baty Butte to Powerlines – 545
I had heard that there had been recent maintenance on the Baty Butte trail, so today’s hike was to check out and enjoy the work. This is one of my favorite trails – it is very unique with some good
… Read the rest 6/5/2025 – Burnt Granite and Mt Lowe
Today’s hike would be my only opportunity to get out this week due to other commitments. I wanted to find something interesting. After looking at snow levels, I landed on hiking the upper Burnt Granite trail. The original plan was
… Read the rest 5/27/2025 – Old Dickey Lake Trail
Today’s hike had one objective – see if we could find the remainder of the old Dickey Lake trail. We had found part of it a couple of years ago when we did a wintertime trip to Bagby. We had
… Read the rest 3/29/2025 – Alder Swamp
Today’s hike was a “return to the woods” hike. I had eye surgery a couple of weeks ago and was required to take it easy for 2-3 weeks. I haven’t hiked Alder Swamp since last year and I’ve been curious
… Read the rest 1/25/2025 – White Iris Trail – Old Baldy – 502
Today’s hike was kind of “get out and enjoy the nice weather” hike. We’ve had REALLY nice weather for January, although it has been cold. It is supposed to continue for part of next week and then it sounds like
… Read the rest 1/19/2025 – Cripple Creek – 703
Today’s hike was a bit shorter than usual (although we still did 5 miles – and the first couple were REALLY, REALLY hard!) – we decided to hike on Sunday afternoon – Kirk had a memorial to attend and I
… Read the rest 11/16/2024 – Shellrock Cache Meadow Serene Lake Loop
Since I’m going to be having cataract surgery this week (which means I will be down for a week or two) and because I didn’t get out last weekend, I wanted to make sure I got out this weekend. My
… Read the rest 11/6/2024 – Baty Butte Trail
Today’s hike was to take advantage of some gorgeous November weather and to burn a vacation day. Zack and I had been thinking about heading up to Baty Butte the weekend before but it looked AWFULLY wet so we decided
… Read the rest 8/24/2024 – Cottonwood Meadows – 705
Today’s hike turned out considerably differently than expected. The plan was to hike the Cottonwood Meadows trail from the southern trailhead – go up the trail to the northern trailhead and turn around and come back down. We encountered a
… Read the rest 5/25/2024 – Huxley Lake from North Fork Trailhead – 521
Today’s hike was to kind of expand on the hike I did last week. After hiking part of the Huxley Lake trail last week, Kirk noticed some comments in the old Trail Sheet talking about a campsite and an old
… Read the rest 5/11/2024 – Bissell/Old Baldy 502
The weather today was supposed to be sunny and unseasonably hot. I wanted to get up into snow somewhere, and decided to either do the White Iris trail or the Bissell trail, depending on which we could get to. It
… Read the rest 12/16/2023- Rho Ridge North – 564 – SNOW!
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
… Read the rest 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
… Read the rest 11/24/2023 – Burnt Granite
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
… Read the rest 10/21/2023 – Rho Ridge North End – 564
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
… Read the rest 2/11/2023 – Bagby Trail Explorations
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
… Read the rest 9/24/2022 – Bull of the Woods
Today’s hike had two objectives:
… Read the rest - To hike to the Bull of the Woods and look at the remains of the lookout that was destroyed in the fires last year (and also see the burned areas)
- To explore north of the
8/13/2022 – Baty Butte to Powerlines
Today’s trip was kind of a surprise (the destination was) – for the last 2 years, the majority of the Clackamas has been closed due to fires. Even though a huge portion of the district didn’t burn, the roads getting
… Read the rest 6/16/2022 – Bissell Trail to Old Baldy
Todays hike was intended to take advantage of some rare nice weather. We’ve been having an extraordinarily wet and cool spring and most weekends have been very wet. I haven’t taken any vacation time this year yet, so I decided
… Read the rest 5/21/2022 – White Iris Trail area Explorations
I haven’t been hiking in over a month – mostly due to really wet weather and the fact I wasn’t in the right head space to deal with getting soaked – so I’ve been waiting for a nice day to
… Read the rest 4/9/2022 – Huxley Lake
Today’s hike was my first hike in almost 2 months – I’ve been resting my knee after the arthroscopic surgery and was finally able to get out and do some real hiking again. Zack was originally going to go but
… Read the rest 11/13/2021-West Pinhead Butte and Skyline Trail Segments
Saturday was supposed to be reasonably good weather (for November) and I thought maybe we could get in one late season hike on the east side. It won’t be long before this area is all covered with snow and inaccessible.
… Read the rest 10/30/2021 – Sisi Butte and Skyline Trail
Today’s hike was something very different. The weather was supposed to be nice, although somewhat chilly and a bit windy and gusty. I had said we could explore some of the other segments of the old Skyline trail and Kirk
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