Oregon Hikers

If this wasn't clear, I have no issue with the HCRH rehab itself; my question is, in the absence of a public transportation option, and in a culture where everyone owns a car and drives, where are all these additional cars going to go? Note that the ODOT solution to the absolute clusterfuck that is...

Do they have plans to add additional parking, or designate parking areas, for all the additional people this will presumably bring? ... If lots of additional walkers and bikers are going to be showing up to use the new path, it seems like the additional tourist traffic (meaning people who want pave...

I guess I see myself as having two options. I could drive an offroad 4WD vehicle really fast through the mud puddles and tear up the road as I go. Or I could watch someone slowly drive an offroad 4WD vehicle up and down a short section of road as it drags some specially-shaped steel behind it. We'r...

When in doubt, plead ignorance and ask for forgiveness. If that fails, let them know you are with Weyerhauser and are considering this tract for clearcut. They may even buy you dinner. :lol: The Forest Service that is all twisted up over the popularity of our trails ("heavens help us, so many peopl...

Now, if you could plant the idea in the interior department that Obama favors this proposed system, then it would immediately be over-ruled :) Honestly, that's a great idea. If we could get news of this Obama-era-holdover's "public lands heist" onto Fox and Friends, it'd be over in a flash. I don't...

There's no water, but there is enough space to camp way high up on the ridge, above the shelter. I've done it a few times and really enjoyed the views. Terrific place for golden hour views (especially during the Dollar Lake Fire). Aug11057-5 (dragged).jpg Aug11054-12 (dragged).jpg For PRint, Star Tr...

The Forest Service are letting these trail resources disappear due to neglect, while simultaneously making it harder and harder to visit other, more popular trails in the same region. They help to create a problem (crowding into some areas by abandoning trails and roads) and then penalize hikers for...

I climbed up Chief Joseph on Sunday, July 1. It was a snow free trip up to 9,616'. I could see that there was a LOT of snow deeper into, and lower in, the mountains. I climbed Sacajawea and Hurwal Divide last summer and was dumbfounded at how these mountains shed the snow sooner than the valleys and...

Absolutely and it doesn't take that much work! This evening we hiked the Multnomah - Wahkeena loop. Beginning at 5:15pm Multnomah was a zoo and the trail to the top of the falls was very busy. However that was only 1 mile, for the remaining 4.5 miles of the hike we crossed paths with only 10 people...

I can't speak for Markesc, but the sense I've gotten from others is that many people grow attached to certain places they have gone to for years, and if those places get too crowded they aren't really motivated to go somewhere new, because they are very attached to those familiar places. They want ...