Oregon Hikers

It takes some nerve to set out for a route like that! This leads me to wonder: have you attempted to get to McNeil/Muddy Fork falls?

RobinB wrote: ↑

October 7th, 2018, 12:29 pm

We spend the night in a sort of creepy Airbnb in Wenatchee—the bottom of some dude’s swanky house

Probably not what you were expecting someone to comment on, but whatever, why was this "sort of creepy?"

Driving east from the PCT trailhead old NF-18 is now signed: Road Closed 1 mile ahead due to storm damage. The gates on both ends are open and the ditch is still easily passed in a 4x4 however. It does continue to erode and I suspect it may be impassable after spring melt-out.

Thank you.

Not that anyone asked my opinion on this sad matter but I don't find it surprising. They say getting lost starts with a false assumption. It can be hard to correct that even if one is thinking clearly, and if one is also hypothermic it may be impossible, with judgement too impaired to recognize the ...

I think this is a great idea and I wish you luck with the project. Unfortunately I am unsuited to that kind of work. The old saying "It's easier to ask forgiveness than it is to get permission" comes to mind, and I think the FS would have to be jerks to punish you for improving an existing, open, an...

I have never gathered wild mushrooms and it seems really hard to get started. I wouldn't try it without careful guidance, and those with enough experience to provide that are so clammed up!

Thank you for the work, and thanks for the update! (And welcome to the forum.)

Can you attach files to private messages? I didn't think so. A simple attachment here isn't too much mess, is it?

I shouldn't be surprised that someone else here thought of this too. Incidentally I have 7,240 tracks, along with the HTML page for 7,168 of them, which I believe has the author/description embedded. I have the entire thing down to 193MB with the use of 7-zip, and I could probably take it down a lit...