Oregon Hikers

Nice! Thanks for the tip.

I would hate to wait for September and be smoked out. But I know what you mean.

I'm sure to the others who were crossing late afternoon, it looked like I had never crossed a stream before. But my very deliberate behavior was a direct result of the traumatic experience in the morning. Here's my GPS showing how much I wandered around at the Eliot crossing (both coming and going) ...

Here's more detail... The stream I thought was a raging torrent in most places. The speed of the water was definitely intimidating, not to mention the frothy roiling current. eliot-branch.jpg I looked from various vantage points and did not see a big downed log that could handle two people walking a...

Answering my own question on Eliot branch:

Certainly challenging. I don't know if the stream crossing or the ascent up the wall of loose rock and dirt was more dangerous.

Has anyone ventured from Cloud Cap across Eliot Branch (and generally counter-clockwise on Timberline Trail from there) recently? If so, what was the Eliot Branch crossing like this year?

Thank you!

I have to admit I was pretty distracted at the meadow, lining up my next panorama. But then when the "Timberline Trail" I thought I was on turned into little more than a cowpath, something seemed way off.

Thank you!

Here's the map of Mt. Hood area 360 panoramic scenes I've shot and put online (there's a few in the backlog waiting to be processed):

https://www.vrlog.com/catalog/mt-hood-n ... t-map.html

Timberline hike log -- August 4th, 2020. This is part 4 of my section hiking of the Timberline Trail. See this post for part 3: https://www.oregonhikers.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=29021&p=214215 See this post for part 2: https://www.oregonhikers.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=28480&p=210450 See t...

My first guess was some sort of geocache.

Thank you all for satisfying my curiosity--I'm not that tempted to go back.

Forgot to mention the scale -- it didn't seem like a chair that would fit an adult, more child-sized. I didn't notice that padding-like thing was underneath the mesh rather than on top of it. But a hunting related object would make sense, and explain the need for a viewshed.