Total Solar Eclipse, 21-Aug-2017

[syncro]

From Deschutes NF: "Forest Road 1110 accessing Black Butte will be closed to motorized use starting at the junction with Forest Road 11. Forest Road 1110 and the non-motorized Black Butte Trail will be open to hiking, biking, or other forms of non-motorized travel for the 10 mile round trip. As a reminder, Black Butte fire lookout at the summit is active and staffed. Overnight camping is not allowed to minimize impacts to the lookout operations."

Good to know - I couldn't find that in their webpage. The more I think about it BB is going to be a pita - ride up the road, push my bike to the top, hike down with the bike and then the drive out of there after will be fun. With starting the bike ride up from the bottom by 6am at the latest it's going to make for a looong day, probably 30hrs straight with no sleep.

[ChaosSigma0]

Anyone try Hwy 224 yet deep into the heart of the forest?

[mattisnotfrench]

Anyone try Hwy 224 yet deep into the heart of the forest?

If they did they're probably still there, as there's pretty much no cell service throughout much of that area.

[jakeparlay]

I had 3 day obsidian wilderness permits and was quite excited until I realized its not in totality.

Same here! I also thought I had eclipse glasses until I realized they were fakes (last night...)! Rounded up some glasses and heading to the Cascades in a few hours. Trying for Bull of the Woods. Was thinking Three Pyramids but the smoke possibility scared me off.

[Aimless]

Well, now OH.org won't be fielding any more queries from out-of-the-PNW visitors about eclipse-viewing prospects. Now we can all settle back down to talking about hiking, forest fires, dogs, bugs, weather, firearms and giardia.

[Derwood]

you can see the corona at 100%

you can take off those obnoxious glasses

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I hope you were kidding about this, If the residual radiation from the corona is enough to do significant damage.

/hiked to the end of my driveway for this
//used the "Pinhole Camera brought to you by Cheerios" for this one.

[ChaosSigma0]

NF-46 via Hwy 224 was smooth sailing on the day of. We went all the way down to Olilliae Lake. Knew there was dirt roads but didn't know what they'd be like for a passenger vehicle. Not bad but I'd look into investing for an off road vehicle. Beautiful area to hike.
Travel back is quick after doing some trekking around the lake.

[Guy]

We went to Sutton Mt yesterday, no traffic problems, camped at the trail head with about 10 other groups and hiked up Sutton Mt early this morning. Set out for home at 1:00pm got stuck in a 15 mile tail back between Fossil & Condon. At Condon while most traffic headed west on 206 we stayed on 19 to Arlington, smooth sailing after Condon. Trip there 3.5 hours, trip back 5.25 hours!

About 60 people on top of Sutton Mt during totality, not too bad & probably a record for Sutton Mt! A fantastic time was had by all.

[adamschneider]

I camped on top of Long Creek Mountain in Malheur National Forest, 92 miles south of Pendleton along U.S. 395. Due to its proximity to the highway, the mountain was full of people (probably at least 50 cars by the time totality rolled around) but we had a nice quiet dispersed campsite at least 100 yards from anyone else, among pines and firs at about 5300'.

It's worth mentioning that throughout the weekend, USFS pickup trucks and fire trucks rolled through every few hours, assumably on the lookout for illegal campfires.

[pdxgene]

Olallie home was a speed limit plus breeze once off the hill. 224/212/I-205/I-5 and even 217 at 4pm was almost deserted. I was shocked.

Going into Olallie, if you go early on a weekday and keep an eye on your sightlines it's much better/easier on your car to use the left side of the road for a pretty good chunk of the drive. There's not too many blind corners that you have to move back over for. There's no stripe down it. You can use whatever part of it you want....