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TripReport, TripReport2008, Vol2

10/25/2008 – Cottonwood Meadows, Buck Lake

October 25, 2008 Rob Williams Leave a comment

Description of Hike:

After my experience a couple weeks ago on the Cottonwood Trail, I decided to go back and try the cross country route again. Last time, I went about halfway through the clearcut, and things didn’t “feel” right,

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TripReport, TripReport2008, Vol2

10/12/2008 – Pyramid Lake, Cottonwood Meadows, Hideaway Lake Falls

October 12, 2008 Rob Williams Leave a comment

Description of Hike:

I decided this might be my last opportunity to get to the higher elevation trails, so I decided to get out and explore some new areas. My plan was to attempt the Cottonwood Meadows trail, all the

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TripReport, TripReport2008, Vol2

9/29/2008 – Cache Meadow, Grouse Point and Trail X

September 28, 2008 Rob Williams Leave a comment

Description of Hike:

A fabulous day of fall hiking! After my successful “epic” trip last weekend (~19 miles and 5200+’ of elevation gain), I decided to do a little more aggressive day hike than I have done in the past.

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TripReport, TripReport2008, Vol2

9/21/2008 – Sounds, Huxley Lake, Grouse Point, Dry Ridge (epic)

September 21, 2008 Rob Williams Leave a comment

Description of Hike:

This was what I called an “epic” hike, since it is the longest and toughest day hike I have ever done. It covered somewhere between 18 and 20 miles, and had over a mile (5200 feet) of

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TripReport, TripReport2008, Vol2

8/28/2008 – Table Rock

August 29, 2008 Rob Williams Leave a comment

Description of Hike:

This was a day trip to the Table Rock Wilderness area, to hike to the top of Table Rock. I haven’t gone in this area before, and it sounded interesting. It was a relatively tough trip for

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TripReport, TripReport2008, Vol2

7/29-7/31/2008 – Twin and Silver King Lakes – 546, 544, 573, 558

July 31, 2008 Rob Williams Leave a comment

Description of Hike:

This was our “annual” 3 day backpacking trip with my daughter. The plan:

Day 1:
Trail 546 (Whetstone) to Trail 573 (Twin Lakes) to Twin Lakes – Camp
It time available, Take 573 to end and explore

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TripReport, TripReport2008, Vol2

7/18-7/20/2008 – Fish Creek Backpacking

July 21, 2008 Rob Williams Leave a comment

Description of Hike:

This was a hike that I planned for quite some time, and it demonstrated the need to be able to adapt to current conditions. I have hiked up Fish Creek on the old 54 road several times,

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TripReport, TripReport2008, Vol2

5/31/2008 – Milepost 3 Trail

May 31, 2008 Rob Williams Leave a comment

Description of Hike:

I woke up this morning, the weather was cloudy, and the forecast was for probable rain. Since I wimped out the weekend before, I decided that I was going hiking no matter what. Then I was half

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TripReport, TripReport2008, Vol2

1/13/2008 – Fish Creek – Old FS Road 54

January 13, 2008 Rob Williams Leave a comment

Description of Hike:

What a beautiful January day for a hike. The weather was cool (high 30’s, low 40’s), but it was sunny with very few clouds. The plan was to go up fish creek, on what used to be

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TripReport, TripReport2007, Vol2

10/28/2007 – Rimrock Trail – Mt Mitchell

October 28, 2007 Rob Williams Leave a comment

Description of Hike:

This is the same hike I took about a month ago, however this time, I hiked the real trail, starting at the real trailhead. The weather was also much better this time, as it was clear. The

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TripReport, TripReport2007, Vol2

10/6/2007 – Lost Lake

October 6, 2007 Rob Williams Leave a comment

Description of Hike:

This was a short hike to the Lost Lake Old Growth trail.

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TripReport, TripReport2007, Vol2

9/23/2007 – Rimrock Trail – Mt Mitchell

September 24, 2007 Rob Williams Leave a comment

Description of Hike:

This is the same hike I took about a month ago, however this time, I hiked the real trail, starting at the real trailhead. The weather was also much better this time, as it was clear. The

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TripReport, TripReport2007, Vol2

8/22/2007 – Suislaw National Forest – Big Tree and Elk Creek Falls Trail

August 22, 2007 Rob Williams Leave a comment

Description of Hike:

This was a short (although very steep) hike to see the largest Port Orford Cedar tree in the world.

It was through some very beautiful old growth trees, and some of the largest Douglas Fir trees I

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TripReport, TripReport2007, Vol2

6/29 – 6/31/2007 – Doris and Cliff Lake Backpacking

June 30, 2007 Rob Williams Leave a comment

Description of Hike:

This was my annual father/daughter backpacking trip, this time to the Mink Lakes basin near Bend.

The trail in started out with scrubby pines, but changed to larger pine/fir as we got closer to the lakes.

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TripReport, TripReport2007, Vol2

6/23/2007 – Hawk Mountain and Mt Lowe

June 25, 2007 Rob Williams Leave a comment

Description of Hike:

What a day! Started out hiking to Hawk Mountain, which was beautiful with the views of Mt Jefferson

and all the wildflowers in bloom.

We got up to Hawk Mountain and spent some time eating lunch and

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TripReport, TripReport2007, Vol2

5/28/2007 – Fish Creek Mountain

May 28, 2007 Rob Williams Leave a comment

Description of Hike:

I now have another favorite to add to my list of trails in the Clackamas district…… The hike started out with some clouds (fog), but cleared up nicely as the day wore on. By the time we

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TripReport, TripReport2007, Vol2

1/24/2007 – Fish Creek

January 25, 2007 Rob Williams Leave a comment

Description of Hike:

Nice hike up along old road 54 which was closed after the ’96 floods. I only made it up to the first bridge, though. A little snow in places, but all in all a very nice winter

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TripReport, TripReport2006, Vol1

7/7 – 7/9/2006 – Backpacking at Big Slide Lake

July 10, 2006 Rob Williams Leave a comment

Description of Hike:

This was our annual weekend father/daughter backpacking trip, this year to the Bull of the Woods wilderness area, camping at Big Slide Lake.

We took a couple of side trips to Lake Lenore and also the Bull

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TripReport, TripReport2006, Vol1

4/5/2006 – Fish Creek

April 5, 2006 Rob Williams Leave a comment

Description of Hike:

Left the house about 8:30, got to trailhead about 9:15. Beautiful day, but a little cool when I first started. First real hike with my new GPS-Garmin Gecko 101. Pretty cool to see elevations and how far

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TripReport, TripReport2005, Vol1

9/11/2005 – Bull of the Woods Trail

September 11, 2005 Rob Williams Leave a comment

Description of Hike:

Don’t remember too much about this hike, but it was a fun hike to the Bull of the Woods lookout. I got Nicholas to come with me. The week before I hiked into Big Slide Lake which

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TripReport, TripReport2005, Vol1

9/11/2005 – Dickey Creek Trail

September 11, 2005 Rob Williams Leave a comment

Description of Hike:

Hike to Big Slide Lake to check it out to see if that is a good place to backpack for the following summer. Nice hike, but a little rough and a little long for a day hike.

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TripReport, TripReport2004, Vol1

11/6/2004 – Hawk Mountain

November 6, 2004 Rob Williams Leave a comment

Description of Hike:

This was a really fun hike I did late in the year (November-See the snow!). It goes up to Hawk Mountain, which has that neat little cabin on it, and BEAUTIFUL views of Mount Jefferson. There are

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TripReport, TripReport2004, Vol1

July 2004 – Serene Lake Backpacking

July 25, 2004 Rob Williams Leave a comment

Description of Hike:

A weekend backpack trip to Serene Lake. Since we didn’t want to take the really bumpy road to Frazier turnaround, we decided to come up from Shellrock lake. This way adds about 3 miles to the trip,

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TripReport, TripReport2002, Vol1

8/23/2002 – Duffy Lake in Mt Jefferson Wilderness area

August 23, 2002 Rob Williams Leave a comment

Description of Hike:

This was a weekend backpack trip to Duffy Lake in the Mt Jefferson wilderness area. The trail continues on to Mowich lake, which is a larger lake, but Duffy seems to have better camping areas around it.

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