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TripReport, TripReport2013

9/13-9/14/2013 – Goat Rocks Wilderness backpack trip

September 15, 2013 Rob Williams Leave a comment

Description of Hike:

This was our “annual” father/daughter hike – this year we decided to go to the Goat Rock Wilderness in Gifford Pinchot National Forest. I had seen good reports about this area, and since Carly really liked Eagle

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9/2/2013 – Shellrock Lake, Grouse Point, Cutoff Trails and Frazier Mountain

September 2, 2013 Rob Williams Leave a comment

Description of Hike:

The goal for this hike was to capture a track for the Shellrock Lake trail, and to capture the east end of the Grouse Point trail (that is a LONG trail!) for inclusion on the trailadvocate website.

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8/9/2013 – Olallie Butte Trail – 720

August 9, 2013 Rob Williams Leave a comment

Description of Hike:

This has has been on my “to do” list for a while now, mostly due to it being one of the last trails I do not have an official, full trail track for. Kirk was camping with

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8/2/2013 – Rimrock and MP3 trails – 704

August 2, 2013 Rob Williams Leave a comment

Description of Hike:

This hike was just a fun hike, and a chance to get back to one of my favorite trails and to also capture the rest of the track for the trail, as well as to capture the

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7/27/2013 – Surprise Lake Cross Country Expedition

July 27, 2013 Rob Williams Leave a comment

Description of Hike:

This hike was a re-do on one we tried to do about 2 months ago. We were turned back by snowdrifts, so we did a “plan B” hike. The intent of this hike was to find an

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4/27/2013 – Big Bottom Exploration – Round 2

April 27, 2013 Rob Williams Leave a comment

Description of Hike:

This hike was round two of trying to find the largest cedar (Western Red Cedar?) tree in Oregon. The last time I went (two weeks ago), I was unable to find it. So I went back to

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4/20/2013 – Upper Falls- South Fork Clackamas River – Old Memaloose Trail

April 20, 2013 Rob Williams Leave a comment

Description of Hike:

Kirk and I decided to explore the abandoned trail on the east side of the South Fork yesterday We made our first stop at the Upper South Fork Falls, heading downhill through one of the old forest

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3/9/2013 – Cripple Creek Trail – 703

March 9, 2013 Rob Williams Leave a comment

Description of Hike:

This particular Saturday’s weather report was supposed to be very nice. I didn’t want to miss a springtime opportunity for good weather! So, I planned a hike up the Cripple Creek trail. I wanted to start down

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1/1/2013 – Abandoned Broughton Log Flume Exploration

January 1, 2013 Rob Williams Leave a comment

Description of Hike:

This was a hike I had originally heard about on the Portland Hikers website. It combines two of my interests – hiking and history. This is an old abandoned log flume that was used from about 1913

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9/12-9/14/2012 – Eagle Cap Wilderness Backpack

September 22, 2012 Rob Williams Leave a comment

Description of Hike:

WOW – I said that a lot during this hike. Some other descriptive words about this trip – Spectacular, Dramatic, Beautiful, Rugged, Epic.

This was intended to be our annual backpacking trip with my daughter last year,

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9/3/2012 – South PCT trail – Jefferson Park – Breitenbush Cascades

September 5, 2012 Rob Williams Leave a comment

Description of Hike:

What a day! This was an OUTSTANDING trip and the weather couldn’t have been more perfect. Not too hot, not too cold, beautiful blue sky, and the wind was blowing in the right direction (to blow the

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8/8/2012 – Skyline Trail Exploration

August 11, 2012 Rob Williams Leave a comment

Description of Hike:

Hike description

After getting a taste of locating old trails the prior weekend, (seeing the different Skyline Trail segments), I got so excited about the Skyline trail that I had to take a day off from work

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7/21/2012 – Bull of the Woods Epic – 551,558,554,550,549,556

July 23, 2012 Rob Williams Leave a comment

Description of Hike:

This hike was one of my “epic” hikes. Anything over about 10 miles and/or very ambitious I consider an epic hike. This hike had LOTS of variation, and LOTS of elevation gain (3700′), some interesting landscape after

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4/14/2012 – Salmonberry Canyon Epic

April 15, 2012 Rob Williams Leave a comment

Description of Hike:

Well, where to start…..This was a hike I have been wanting to do for several years now. Earlier this year I had made a recon hike to see what the two trailheads were like, how accessible they

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TripReport, TripReport2011, Vol3

10/29/2011 – Wash Creek Exploration

October 29, 2011 Rob Williams Leave a comment

Description of Hike:

A truly epic hike. The weather was absolutely fantastic, although we did get very wet due to the brushiness of the “trail” (an old road that was decommissioned after the ’96 floods). It was one of the

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10/8/2011 – PCT to Pyramid Butte – Ruddy Hill

October 8, 2011 Rob Williams Leave a comment

Description of Hike:

This was a trip to explore the southern most part of the Clackamas District, and to try and get in some last minute hiking before the winter snows close the higher elevation trails. The Pyramid Butte trail

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7/9/2011 – Baty Butte Cross Country hike – 545

July 9, 2011 Rob Williams Leave a comment

Description of Hike:

This was intended to be a hike on the south end of the Baty Butte trail, in preparation for a South Sister climb the following weekend. Neither of those things came to pass. The South Sister climb

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TripReport, TripReport2011, Vol3

1/1/2011 – Cripple Creek – 703

January 2, 2011 Rob Williams Leave a comment

Description of Hike:

The plan for this hike was to start the new year out right and do a new hike. Although I’ve hiked the upper section of the Cripple Creek trail, I had never hiked up this “alternate” starting

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TripReport, TripReport2010, Vol3

11/3/2010 – Bull of the Woods trail – 550

November 3, 2010 Rob Williams Leave a comment

Description of Hike:

With the (probably) last of the nice weather, I took a day off to do what is probably my last high elevation hike of the season. I went up to Bull of the Woods lookout on the

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TripReport, TripReport2010, Vol3

10/13/2010 – North end of Bagby trail – 544

October 13, 2010 Rob Williams Leave a comment

Description of Hike:

This was a mid week hike down the north end of the Bagby trail. I wanted to complete my traverse of the entire Bagby trail. Earlier this summer my daughter and I hiked the lower 5 miles

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9/27/2010 – Fish Creek Mountain – 541

September 27, 2010 Rob Williams Leave a comment

Description of Hike:

This was a day hike to Fish Creek Mountain – After the tiring quad trip the day before, I wanted a shorter hike that was reasonably close to town. I had forgotten how much elevation this trail

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9/26/2010 – Surprise Lake Quad Trip

September 26, 2010 Rob Williams Leave a comment

Description of Hike:

This was not a hiking trip, but a very tough trip with 4 quads down old decommissioned roads to Surprise Lake in the Fish Creek Basin. The roads are very rough and becoming overgrown with alder. We

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9/12/2010 – Abbot Road and High Rock

September 12, 2010 Rob Williams Leave a comment

Description of Hike:

This wasn’t a hike, but it was an interesting adventure in the woods…..I had always wanted to explore the east end of the 4610 road up to where the slide destroyed the road. We were originally going

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9/18/2010 – Signal Buttes

September 10, 2010 Rob Williams Leave a comment

Description of Hike:

This was a very short, very wet hike down a very short section of the Cougar Creek trail and then bushwhacking over to Signal Buttes. It was a very rainy day, but even with the rain, we

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TripReport, TripReport2010, Vol3

9/6/2010 – South Fork Clackamas falls

September 6, 2010 Rob Williams Leave a comment

Description of Hike:

This was another hike up the South Fork of the Clackamas to explore the old Oregon City Waterworks relics. I went with Kirk and the new objective was to get to the bottom of all 3 of

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8/13/2010 – Elk Lake Creek – Welcome Lakes – Geronimo – Motherlode Trails

August 13, 2010 Rob Williams Leave a comment

Description of Hike:

This was a rather long hike, one I like to call an “epic” hike. Essentially, it is a long hike that is rather challenging for me. I invited my daughter to accompany me, and to my surprise,

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7/21/2010 – Rimrock Trail – 704

July 21, 2010 Rob Williams Leave a comment

Description of Hike:

This was a very special hike for me. My father died on July 14th and his funeral/memorial service was on July 20th. One of the things he loved to do was to live vicariously through me in

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7/19/2010 – Plaza Trail – 783

July 19, 2010 Rob Williams Leave a comment

Description of Hike:

This was a hike up the old Plaza Trail off the 4610 (Abbot) road just before the Twin Springs campground which is now all bermed off. We first stopped at the remnants of the old Plaza Guard

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TripReport, TripReport2010, Vol3

5/30/2010 – Eagle Creek Trail (off the Clackamas)

May 30, 2010 Rob Williams Leave a comment

Description of Hike:

I have wanted to get out hiking again for quite some time, but with everything going on, and having a wet spring, it has been difficult. I thought I could get out on the Memorial Day weekend,

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2/20/2010 – South Fork Clackamas and Memaloose Creek Falls

February 20, 2010 Rob Williams Leave a comment

Description of Hike:

This was another trip up the South Fork of the Clackamas where the old OC Waterworks was. This time we wanted to get to the base of the falls to get a better look at them. We

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TripReport, TripReport2010, Vol3

1/10/2010 – Oregon City Waterworks – South Fork and Memaloose Creek

January 10, 2010 Rob Williams Leave a comment

Description of Hike:

This was a hike I had on my list of “to dos” for quite some time. It was hiking up the South Fork of the Clackamas to explore the remains of the old Oregon City waterworks. From

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TripReport, TripReport2009, Vol2

12/24/2009 – Fish Creek – Calico Road

December 25, 2009 Rob Williams Leave a comment

Description of Hike:

This was a wintertime hike up Fish Creek on a decommissioned road. It is sometimes referred to as the Calico road since (I’m guessing) it goes to Calico Creek.

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TripReport, TripReport2009, Vol2

11/1/2009 – Olallie Lake Trails – 719, 723, 735, 733

November 1, 2009 Rob Williams Leave a comment

Description of Hike:

I wanted to take advantage of the nice weather for what may end up being my last outing this year. After asking some questions on some online sites, and some info from the new caretaker at Olallie

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TripReport, TripReport2009, Vol2

10/5/2009 – Baty Butte Trail – 545 – South End

October 5, 2009 Rob Williams Leave a comment

Description of Hike:

Well, I really wanted to hike the south part of the Baty Butte Trail (I did the north part a few weeks ago), and I know time is running out for high elevation trails. So, I used

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TripReport, TripReport2009, Vol2

9/12/2009 – Baty Butte Trail – 545 – North End

September 13, 2009 Rob Williams Leave a comment

Description of Hike:

This was a hike to explore the Baty Butte trail. It was forecast to be very warm, so I tried to leave a little earlier hoping to escape the heat a bit. The trail was easy to

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