Description of Hike:
Trying to get in some last hikes before snow closes the higher elevation trails, and also trying to add to my goal of hiking all the trails in the Clackamas district, I decided to hike 4 trails
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10/2/2011 – Thunder Mountain and Skookum Lake Trails – 542/543
Description of Hike:
The 2011 higher elevation hiking season is fading very quickly. We had a very late start to summer and LOTS of late season snow, so it was mid-late July before some of the higher elevation trails were
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Description of Hike:
In my ongoing quest to hike all of the trails in the Clackamas district, one on my list was the Rho ridge trail. Without doing an overnighter, hiking 22.5 miles in one day (up and back) is
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Description of Hike:
This was intended to be a loop hike, going counterclockwise, starting on the Lodgepole trail, then taking the Red Lake trail to where it intersects with the PCT and taking the PCT east and then north back
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Description of Hike:
I have not been out hiking in almost 2 months due to end of school year events, so this was a welcome escape. Since I wasn’t sure of the snow levels (this has been a weird year
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Description of Hike:
This was a short hike down the South Fork of the Clackamas River on the Hillockburn trail. I didn’t have a lot of time for a hike on this day, but really needed to get out and
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This was a trek up the old 5420 road in the Fish Creek drainage. Many people call it the Calico road (old maps also show this name).
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2/26/2011 – Switch Creek
Description of Hike:
A short hike on an abandoned trail with a couple of friends. Although it was a short hike, it was great to get out in the woods. I was surprised at how much snow there was, especially
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Description of Hike:
I decided to take advantage of the nice weather and take a day off from work. It was a little cool and foggy in the morning, but the sun came out a little later and it was
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Description of Hike:
I got up early to do this hike before too much happened on Christmas Eve. It has been about a month and a half since I have been out, and really felt the need to do a
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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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Description of Hike:
This was a short hike up the Fanton trail to complete my hiking of the trail. I had almost completed the entire trail, but lost the trail in the snow. It was a great hike up a
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Description of Hike:
What a weekend! The original plan was to hike the south end of the Bagby trail, going up to Silver King Lake for night #1, then come down across the Whetstone trail and then down the Gold
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Description of Hike:
This was a hike into the Bull of the Woods wilderness area. Normally, this trail isn’t open this early, but since there has been very little low elevation snow this year, the trailhead was still accessible. Actually,
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Description of Hike:
I thought I had made my last high elevation hike of 2008, but so far, the snow has held off from removing access to the higher elevations. With the beautiful fall weather on Sunday, even though I
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Description of Hike:
I wanted to do a little recon for my Fish Creek backpacking trip in a couple of weeks, so I thought I would go and see how much snow had melted out. I was pleasantly surprised based
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Description of Hike:
I got out yesterday and went and hiked most of the Fanton Trail. The 4614 road (Squaw Mountain rd) is impassible a little ways past the 4613 turnoff due to snow, but 4613 was clear to the
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Description of Hike:
A very nice day for a spring hike. I finally got out to go hiking, and ended up deciding on the Clackamas River Trail, since I figured that there wouldn’t be any other trail free of snow,
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Description of Hike:
I did not keep a description of this hike, however I do remember parts of it. It was a trail with LOTS of up and down. Several nice viewpoints along the way, however the view at Old
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Description of Hike:
This was a hodgepodge of trails in the Olallie Lake scenic district, since each of the trails were relatively short, I decided to combine them to make a longer hike. I then found the message on the
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Description of Hike:
This was a short hike down to the South Fork of the Clackamas River. The beginning of the trail was rather “urban”, with a fair amount of garbage, etc. The first two thirds of the hike was
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Description of Hike:
Took an exploratory hike to see if this route is possible for cross country skiing on top of the trail (taking the side trail to road 4635 and skiing the road). Got stopped at the Grouse Creek
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Description of Hike:
This was a hike to Thunder Mountain and then down to Skookum Lake. I see why they say Skookum Lake is “spooky”.
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9/29/2006 – Rho Creek Trail – Lower half
Description of Hike:
Rho Creek trail (#560): I got to the trail head about 10:30, and finally found the trailhead marker, an orange blaze and the old USFS marker with an aluminum T on it (placed there by the guy
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Description of Hike:
Pansy lake trail (#551) to Dickey Lake (#549) – I wanted to explore this area since this was recommended by someone when Carly and I backpacked into Big Slide Lake this summer. He said there was one
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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
9/9/2006 – Whetstone Mountain
Description of Hike:
Took the Whetstone Mountain Trail (#546) to the summit of Whetstone Mountain. I tried to do this hike earlier this year, but had to turn back due to snow. It was a pretty long road back to … Read the rest
6/11/2006 – Tillamook Head hike – Ecola State Park
Description of Hike:
This was a short day hike into the “Hikers Camp” at the top of Tillamook Head in Ecola State Park. The camp is pretty nice, with 3 adirondacks, a covered picnic table, and nice outhouse.
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5/29/2006 – Tamanawas Falls
Description of Hike:
Family hike-Got to trailhead about 12:45, ate lunch and left. Brought Bodie (the dog), but had to carry him over the first bridge because he was too scared.
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4/23/2006 – Bagby Trail – to Bagby Hotsprings – Pegleg Falls
Description of Hike:
This was a surprise hike. I was planning on going to Whetstone Mountain, but couldn’t make it that high this early in the year. I normally wouldn’t hike to Bagby, since it is a pretty crowded trail,
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Description of Hike:
This was a weekday hike along half of the Clackamas river trail, taking the side trip up to Pup Creek Falls. Pup Creek Falls is quite an awesome sight, and well worth the trip.
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12/17/2005 – Cripple Creek Trail
Description of Hike:
This was a winter hike to the snow level on the Cripple Creek trail. It was REALLY cold the day we were up there, and we didn’t go too far, since the cold coupled with the wind
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Description of Hike:
I’ve hiked this trail at least twice (you can see the winter time in a couple of the pictures). It is a very pretty trail, and the spot on top of Squaw Mountain is a nice vista.
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Description of Hike:
This was a weekend backpacking trip into Shining lake. We were going to go to Big Slide Lake, but the road was closed due to construction, so we had to make alternate plans. After consulting the ranger
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Description of Hike:
This was our second annual father/daughter hike. This year we decided to go to Red Lake. It was a little early in the season to do this trip, since it was still rather cool, and the weather
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