Oregon Hikers

Hi Mayhem,

I was borrowing a friends point and shoot to try it out, little did I know it shoots 1080p! It was a nikon 8100

I spotted this birds next along the Larch Mtn. trail early this morning and took a quick side trip down to multnomah creek to film the bids going in and out with food for the young that I assume are inside. My best guess was these are rock wrens, but I'm sure someone on here and ID them in a second....

Well I should chime in since I went up starvation - down wyeth two weeks ago and up/down defiance last week. Starvation is much steeper, especially with the cutoff, but there is more of a rest/grind quality to it. Defiance is grind/grind, it just never lets up! As a result, the mental steepness of d...

I've gone across the log twice, the first time it was icy and wet and it was quite scary, my slippery nylon hiking pants made things worse, I almost lost it a couple of times and I was looking below me at all the hazards I might fall on if I did. However, next time I was more prepared, even though i...

conditions were the same on Saturday as my previous post, almost no melting last week. At least the other legs of the triple D were snow free for us! (Dog and Devil's rest)

FYI, the snow is still 4 or 5 feet deep on top of Defiance on 5-22, around the 4400 foot level descending from Greenpoint mtn we were still in 2-3 feet of snow and we finally hit a very clearly defined snow level at 4000 feet on the Wyeth Trail. Warren lake on the way up was mostly melted out at 390...

I forgot to add that by chance one friend had a USPS mailing scale in the back of his vehicle one day when we returned to the cars. We put his BD transfer 7 on the and got 24 oz... and then the lifeline delivered the shock of the century when it registered at just 22 oz! What! We were convinced that...

Wow Matt, I wish I could have been there, instead I was getting soaked on Table Mtn! Looks like some awesome creek and water volumes. I have a ton of the water-proofing re-treatment stuff if you want, just let me know and I will bring some to the next hike.

I've used the lifeline shovel for a number of tasks this year in the mountains, including digging a bunch of avy pits, a snow cave and even getting my car out of the sno-park (the advertised use of the shovel!) I can't comment on the alloy question but some of my friends are quite fond of the lifeli...

In the winter or any foul weather hike, I tend to carry extra upon extra insulating layers and skimp on the firestarter materials. I figure if conditions are such that I am going to need a lot of firestarter to get something going, I'd rather just conserve my energy, plop myself down and wait out th...