Oregon Hikers

My sister and I did that hike a couple of years ago, went up the west side of the ridge, counted 7 piles of bear poo. On the way down we counted 8 and my dog was completely on alert the whole time. Never saw the actual bear though.

I didn't know where Lone Butte is, but it is north west from Indian Heaven, if he was planning on being gone 2 weeks he could be in Indian Heaven too. Hope he can be found.

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After seeing all the wonderful photos, my daughter and I headed up to Vista Ridge on Tuesday 6/9, I saw all those wilted flowers too and thought the same as you that I'd missed them. We headed on up deciding to try for Elk Cove, at least we'd have a view of the mountain, and of course found the flow...

Searched and searched all kinds of web sites trying to find that sound ... finally found one of the blue grouse here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yuR6wShbqQk

I've been wanting to venture out on some trails I've not done before, so that's my goal this summer to do as many different hikes as I can. I'd hiked from Windy Ridge on Mount Saint Helens a few years ago, but haven't really done any other trails in the area, other than the Ape Caves, which I don't ...

trailcrew25 wrote:Thanks for the tree report, looking like a lite year so far. Did you go to Blue lake? Any snow?

I only made it a little past rock lake as there was a ton of snow I didn't want to trudge over!
This is where I turned around.

I just did the Thomas Lake Trail in Indian Heaven yesterday. There were probably 4 or 5 large trees across the trail, but nothing that wasn't easy to get around. I took a couple of photos. Probably 1 1/2 to 2 feet across at most?

Thank you everyone! It would be pretty easy to do in conjunction with the Observation Peak trail too as it's only a little over half a mile off of that trail, so wouldn't add too much mileage. If I hadn't been so tired I might have done both. I'm trying to add trails I've never done before this year...

Decided to give Observation Peak a try and headed to the trailhead mentioned here in the field guides. What I call "The back way" I'd went February 15th with my husband and we encountered ZERO snow so today I was on my own. The trailhead is a 45 minute drive from my home in Carson. The road isn't to...