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- February 24th, 2024, 8:01 pm
- Forum: Trip Reports
- Topic: Dead Mountain 02-24-2024
- Replies: 6
- Views: 839
Re: Dead Mountain 02-24-2024
Just guesswork here, but your description and research suggests to me that the FS abandoned Flat Creek trail before 2014 and left it to sink back into a natural state, but some local mtn bikers put the work in to resurrect it and restructure it as a biker's single track. If so, then good for them.
- February 24th, 2024, 4:57 pm
- Forum: Trip Reports
- Topic: Dead Mountain 02-24-2024
- Replies: 6
- Views: 839
Re: Dead Mountain 02-24-2024
Thanks for the report! :) I was curious about that Flat Creek trail sign so I went to the Willamette Forest website and looked up Dead Mountain trail. The description for it starts like this: Dead Mountain Trail #3566 Formerly Flat Creek Trail, the Dead Mountain Trail begins by climbing up to a smal...
- January 25th, 2024, 8:56 pm
- Forum: Hiking in the News
- Topic: USFS oppression marches on with proposed high-Hood permit
- Replies: 62
- Views: 413200
Re: USFS oppression marches on with proposed high-Hood permit
Besides that, the old system largely favors fit hikers who can hike fast. The new system is more equitable because it gives slower hikers a better chance. Most of your post made sense to me, but this piece did not. Were you thinking that fast hikers always got all the available camping spots? That ...
- December 24th, 2023, 5:48 pm
- Forum: General Hiking Topics
- Topic: I just won the "forgot something stupid" olympics
- Replies: 16
- Views: 27804
Re: I just won the "forgot something stupid" olympics
Chip, was the beer was in the pack?
- December 21st, 2023, 5:42 pm
- Forum: Lost & Found
- Topic: Update: FOUND!! <3 Lost wallet at Trillium Sno Park
- Replies: 12
- Views: 12634
Re: Update: FOUND!! <3 Lost wallet at Trillium Sno Park
Just posting to point out that that elizabethhines82 just updated her original post and her wallet was found and returned. She's very happy about it!
- December 21st, 2023, 10:39 am
- Forum: Lost & Found
- Topic: Update: FOUND!! <3 Lost wallet at Trillium Sno Park
- Replies: 12
- Views: 12634
Re: Lost wallet at Trillium Sno Park
alex3958 was a chatbot posting from Istanbul, now banned. the original post is genuine and I hope her wallet has found its way back to her.
- December 10th, 2023, 8:09 pm
- Forum: Lost & Found
- Topic: Update: FOUND!! <3 Lost wallet at Trillium Sno Park
- Replies: 12
- Views: 12634
Re: Lost wallet at Trillium Sno Park
good luck! the chances the finder is honest are actually pretty good. the chances they read about it here are much smaller. our traffic tends to be on the low side in the winter months. but, again, good luck! hope you get it back intact!
- December 7th, 2023, 1:51 pm
- Forum: Introduce Yourself!
- Topic: Hello!
- Replies: 3
- Views: 17274
Re: Hello!
Welcome. You'll find that this website and especially these forums are an excellent source of local information as your trip here from Michigan approaches. Where do you like to backpack when you're not visiting our neck of the woods here in the PNW?
- December 6th, 2023, 5:10 pm
- Forum: Introduce Yourself!
- Topic: Hello and thank you!
- Replies: 13
- Views: 26839
Re: Hello and thank you!
Yours was far better, Adam.
- December 5th, 2023, 7:47 pm
- Forum: General Hiking Topics
- Topic: Short cut across Hamilton Creek
- Replies: 7
- Views: 17540
Re: Short cut across Hamilton Creek
That seasonal watercourse is being emphatically seasonal! What with the abundant warm rain and multiple days of warm temperatures I'm waiting to see what has happened to the snow levels this week, not to mention where there's trail damage from swift runoffs.