Tag Archives: OffTrail

This is for trips where there was a significant off trail route.

TripReport, TripReport2015

9/26/2015 – Baty Butte – 545

September 27, 2015 Rob Williams Leave a comment

Description of Hike:

With all the turmoil the last week (coming back to work after vacation, and Carly leaving for Mozambique), a hike sounded like just what the doctor ordered. It has been over 5 months since Bodie’s diagnosis of

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TripReport, TripReport2015

8/29/2015 – Pansy Lake Explorations – 551, 558

August 30, 2015 Rob Williams Leave a comment

Description of Hike:

Today’s hike was going to be interesting due to the weather – we haven’t had any significant rainfall for almost 3 months now (except one really short intense storm about a month ago), and they were predicting

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TripReport, TripReport2014

8/19/2014 – Three Lynx Way Trail Exploration

August 20, 2014 Rob Williams Leave a comment

Description of Hike:

This was my birthday hike – in figuring out where I wanted to go, a trip report on the trailadvocate.org site intrigued me. It was a report about someone finding a trail I stumbled across reference to

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TripReport, TripReport2014

3/22/2014 – North Fork Clackamas River – Fisherman Trail

March 22, 2014 Rob Williams Leave a comment

Description of Hike:

Originally, this was going to be a hike up to Cold Springs to start the year. I had gotten up there one week prior with little difficulty (most of the roads were free of snow, with the

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TripReport, TripReport2014

1/25/2014 – South Fork Water Pipeline

January 25, 2014 Rob Williams Leave a comment

Description of Hike:

This trip has been on my radar for quite some time – probably since I did the series of hikes to the South Fork waterworks up the South Fork in 2010. The goal was to hike downriver

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TripReport, TripReport2014

1/1/2014 – Rho Creek Trail – 569

January 1, 2014 Rob Williams Leave a comment

Description of Hike:

This was a (quickly becoming) traditional New Years Day hike. Originally I had wanted to do a low hike, since it is January, but with the lack of snow up high, I thought I would take advantage

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TripReport, TripReport2013

11/25/2013 – Old Hillockburn Trail Exploration – Old Silvicultural Area

November 25, 2013 Rob Williams Leave a comment

Description of Hike:

This hike was kind of planned last minute. We’ve had an extended run of nice, sunny (but cold) weather, and I needed to take some time off before the end of the year, so I took a

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TripReport, TripReport2013

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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TripReport, TripReport2013

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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TripReport, TripReport2013

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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TripReport, TripReport2013

7/13/2013 – Huxley Lake – 521 and Vicinity

July 13, 2013 Rob Williams Leave a comment

Description of Hike:

Today’s goal was to capture a good track of the Huxley Lake trail and to do a little exploring around the area. It was a beautiful day, not too hot, not too cold and sunny. What a

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TripReport, TripReport2013

7/6/2013 – Grouse Point, Parrywinkle Falls, South Fork Roaring River

July 6, 2013 Rob Williams Leave a comment

Description of Hike:

Today’s hike was setup by a couple of hiker friends, Brian and Paul. Paul was the one who took me on the “death march” a few years ago. It was a great trip, but it was quite

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TripReport, TripReport2013

5/28/2013 – Music Creek Falls and Wanderers Peak

May 28, 2013 Rob Williams Leave a comment

Description of Hike:

This trip was intended to be to further explore the Surprise Lake in the Fish Creek drainage (there are at least 3 “surprise lakes” in the Clackamas country). There is no trail to the lake, however there

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TripReport, TripReport2013

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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TripReport, TripReport2013

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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TripReport, TripReport2013

4/13/2013 – Big Bottom Exploration

April 13, 2013 Rob Williams Leave a comment

Description of Hike:

This was a hike into the old growth grove of Big Bottom on the Clackamas River. This low, flat area has a lot of old growth fir and cedar. It is supposed to contain one the largest

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TripReport, TripReport2013

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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TripReport, TripReport2012

11/10/2012 – Weather Station exploration and Oak Grove Butte Area

November 11, 2012 Rob Williams Leave a comment

Description of Hike:

This was an end of the higher elevation year hike to try and find a couple of weather stations as well as hike to the top of Oak Grove Butte and also hike an old abandoned trail

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TripReport, TripReport2012

9/29/2012 – Old Baldy – 502 – East End – Squaw Mountain and Meadow

September 30, 2012 Rob Williams Leave a comment

Description of Hike:

This was a milestone hike for me. Completing this hike means I have hiked all of the mileage of all the official trails in the Clackamas district. While there are still lots of abandoned trails to find,

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TripReport, TripReport2012

5/19/2012 – Bissell and White Iris (502-A) Trails

June 24, 2012 Rob Williams Leave a comment

Description of Hike:

I had to work early Saturday morning (2am-9am), so I got a late start on this, but I thought I could squeeze in a hike due to the long days. Fortunately, I was correct, and had enough

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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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TripReport, TripReport2011, Vol3

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, TripReport2010, Vol3

10/3/2010 – Burnt Granite – 595

October 3, 2010 Rob Williams Leave a comment

Description of Hike:

This was a hike to the restored Burnt Granite Trail, which goes around the east side of Burnt Granite. This area burned extensively in the 1930’s or so and is very rocky. The area had lots of

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TripReport, TripReport2010, Vol3

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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TripReport, TripReport2010, Vol3

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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TripReport, TripReport2010, Vol3

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, 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, TripReport2006, Vol1

9/17/2006 – Rho Creek Trail – Upper half

September 17, 2006 Rob Williams Leave a comment

Description of Hike:

Tried to hike the Rho Creek Trail (#???) based on some postings on the trail advocate website. Apparently, this trail has been officially abandoned by the USFS, but there is at least one person who thinks it … Read the rest