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9/3/2022 – Corral Springs Trail

September 3, 2022 Rob Williams Leave a comment

Today’s hike had two objectives:

To do some conditioning before my annual backpacking trip with Carly
To see if I could find any evidence of a continuation of Corral Springs on the south side of Roaring River

We headed out

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8/13/2022 – Baty Butte to Powerlines

August 14, 2022 Rob Williams Leave a comment

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

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6/28/2022 – Sahalie Falls Loop

June 30, 2022 Rob Williams Leave a comment

This hike was an “all hands” hike that was family friendly. We did it on our family vacation near Sisters. The plan was to view Koosah falls and then take the river trail to Sahalie Falls and back. It is

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6/20/2022 – Fanton and Old Baldy Trails

June 20, 2022 Rob Williams Leave a comment

Today’s hike was intended to be kind of a redemption from all the rain we’ve had recently. It was Juneteenth and I had the day off and the weather report looked good – mostly sunny weather. When I woke up

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6/16/2022 – Bissell Trail to Old Baldy

June 16, 2022 Rob Williams Leave a comment

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

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5/21/2022 – White Iris Trail area Explorations

May 22, 2022 Rob Williams Leave a comment

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

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4/9/2022 – Huxley Lake

April 10, 2022 Rob Williams Leave a comment

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

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3/26/2022 – McIver Park

March 27, 2022 Rob Williams Leave a comment

Today’s hike was definitely a “hiking light” to see how my knee would do an an easy day of hiking. It has been over 4 weeks since my knee surgery so the doctor said it would be OK to do

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1/22/2022 – Mosier Creek

January 24, 2022 Rob Williams Leave a comment

This was kind of a last minute quick trip just to get out on a beautiful winter day and can only be characterized as “hiking light”. This BLM land off Ridge road (Mosier Creek flows thru it) is pretty close,

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1/12/2022 – Eagle Creek Trail – 501

January 14, 2022 Rob Williams Leave a comment

Today’s hike was a great day out with Carly and the 3 dogs. She was down visiting for a few days as a late Christmas celebration. Since pickings are slim due to all the fire closures and all the low

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1/1/2022 – Highland Butte

January 1, 2022 Rob Williams Leave a comment

Today’s hike was the annual “first hike of the year” event. I’ve done a hike on 1/1 on 9 of the last 11 years – and one year I missed it due to weather. We’ve had some low elevation snow,

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11/13/2021-West Pinhead Butte and Skyline Trail Segments

November 14, 2021 Rob Williams Leave a comment

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.

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10/30/2021 – Sisi Butte and Skyline Trail

November 1, 2021 Rob Williams Leave a comment

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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10/9/2021-Cottonwood Meadows Trail

October 11, 2021 Rob Williams Leave a comment

Today’s hike was intended to be a relatively easy hike to get out and enjoy the fall colors and weather. The goal for the day was to hike the entire length of the Cottonwood Meadows trail all the way down

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9/6/2021-Shining Lake Trail – 510

September 7, 2021 Rob Williams Leave a comment

I haven’t been hiking for almost a month since I’ve been helping our son with his remodel project. I thought Labor day would be a good opportunity to get out and stretch my legs in preparation for my back to

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7/3/2021 – East Side Driving Tour Part 2 – Mt Lowe

July 4, 2021 Rob Williams Leave a comment

Today’s hike was another long day of driving to explore the east side of the district after the Riverside fire. We did a similar tour two weeks ago, trying to rest my ankles. My ankles have been doing pretty well,

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6/19/2021 – East Side Driving Tour

June 20, 2021 Rob Williams Leave a comment

Today’s trip was not really a hike – I sprained my ankle on the backpacking outing a couple weeks ago, and I was advised by the doctor to rest my ankle for 4-8 weeks. I really wanted to get out,

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5/15/2021 – South Huckleberry Trail – Molalla Corridor

May 16, 2021 Rob Williams Leave a comment

Today’s hike was really just a “get out in the woods” hike. I’ve not been out for a couple of weeks and after getting my second COVID shot, I needed some fresh air. Zack needed to get out and encouraged

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5/1/2021 – Fanton to Old Baldy to Squaw Mountain

May 2, 2021 Rob Williams Leave a comment

Today’s hike plan was to drive up 4614 as far as we could, and take the Fanton trail up to Old Baldy and then head east over to the Squaw Meadows area to explore. The day threw us a few

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3/27/2021 – Eagle Creek Loop

March 28, 2021 Rob Williams Leave a comment

Today’s hike was another attempt to find the old location of the Eagle Creek Lookout. It was a lookout that was not in operation for too long, about 20 years or so and has been gone for over 60 years

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3/6/2021-Douglas Trail

March 7, 2021 Rob Williams Leave a comment

Today’s hike was to explore a portion of trail I’ve not been on before. It was to explore the west end of the Douglas trail. Last year, Kirk and I did a bit off an adventure to head up to

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3/2/2021 – Eagle Creek

March 3, 2021 Rob Williams Leave a comment

I was supposed to help my father in law with cleanup from the recent ice storms, but that fell thru. I had already arranged for the day off and the weather was beautiful, so I decided to do a hike.

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1/23/2021 – Devils Peak Lookout

January 24, 2021 Rob Williams Leave a comment

Today’s trip we had talked about for a while. Originally we were thinking about doing this as the 1/1 trip, however the weather that day was terrible, so we changed plans. I’m glad we did, because today was just about

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12/23/2020 – White Iris Trail

December 23, 2020 Rob Williams Leave a comment

With most of the Clackamas district still closed due to after effects from the Riverside and Lionshead fire, options are extremely limited. The weather was supposed to be nice today and so I decided to head up the lower portion

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12/5/2020 – Bissell and Old Baldy Trails

December 5, 2020 Rob Williams Leave a comment

Today’s hike was planned to be one of the few trails we have access to due to the Riverside fire. Originally we were going to do the White Iris trail, but we decided to head up the old abandoned Bissell

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11/28/2020 – Wildcat Mountain

November 28, 2020 Rob Williams Leave a comment

Today’s hike was an idea that Kirk had. Since pretty much the entire Clackamas district is inaccessible due to the Riverside fire, he had the idea to head up to Wildcat Mountain. Initially, the idea was to go from the

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11/21/2020 – Fanton to Old Baldy to Squaw Mountain

November 21, 2020 Rob Williams Leave a comment

Today’s hike was intended to be short (however it ended up shorter than I expected). The weather was supposed to be beautiful, and I hadn’t been out in a couple weeks, so I knew I had to go out this

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11/7/2020 – Shellrock Lake to Cache Meadow to Cripple Creek Trails

November 7, 2020 Rob Williams Leave a comment

The goal for today’s hike was to get down to the Cripple creek trail to see how it fared in the recent Riverside fire. I knew it was going to be a tough day and I knew it was going

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10/3/2020 – Eagle Creek (Clackamas) – 501

October 4, 2020 Rob Williams Leave a comment

Today’s hike was very interesting, and VERY different than what was originally planned. Originally, we had planned to do a little “civil disobedience” and technically violate the forest closure order. We were hoping we could get up to the White

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9/27/2020 – Mosier Creek – BLM Land

September 27, 2020 Rob Williams Leave a comment

Since the Riverside fire has completely closed the Clackamas district for the foreseeable future, I was looking for other “off the beaten path” hikes that I might be able to do. This area on Ridge Road – a parcel of

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8/19/2020-Bull of the Woods Trail – 550

August 19, 2020 Rob Williams Leave a comment

Today’s hike was my birthday hike. I have the week off and today was my birthday, so I decided to take a hike (no pun intended). I decided to hike the Bull of the Woods trail up to the lookout

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6/20/2020 – White Iris Trail

June 20, 2020 Rob Williams Leave a comment

Today’s hike was a quick run up to the White Iris trail. Carly had come down for Father’s Day and we had until early afternoon so we did a quick hike to see if the white iris were in full

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6/13/2020 – Rho Creek Trail – 569

June 14, 2020 Rob Williams Leave a comment

Today’s hike was to revisit a trail I haven’t been on for over 6 years. Kirk and I hiked this trail on New Years day of 2014 (a winter with way below normal snowfall). When we were coming back down

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3/15/2020 – Cripple Creek Trail

March 15, 2020 Rob Williams Leave a comment

Today’s hike was kind of unique. Normally I would be going to church on Sunday, but due to the Coronavirus (COVID-19) our church services have been cancelled for the next two weeks. Since I can’t go to church, I thought

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3/7/2020 – MP3 Trail to Rimrock

March 8, 2020 Rob Williams Leave a comment

Today’s hike was literally just to get the dogs out of the house for a while to burn off some energy. We’ve been babysitting Otis for the past 4 weeks and he has a lot more energy than Thor can

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