Oregon Hikers

March is spring in Portland, but up on Mt. Hood it's still very much winter. Snow doesn't melt up there until June or July most years. You might be better off visiting the Columbia River Gorge, where there are a lot of low-elevation trails accessible in March. A popular and scenic trail is Eagle Cre...

I understand the funding issue and the increase in use, but from my perspective it just does not seem like the USFS prioritizes recreational use at all. It is a "well, I guess we have to do it" kind of mindset - especially for the lesser used areas of the forest. If you haven't read it, this 2018 a...

Was this in a national forest? The Forest Service often decomissions roads by making them undrivable in this fashion. You can read more about that here.

I've got another weird FG situation. If I do a search for Jefferson Park in the FG I get this page: https://www.oregonhikers.org/field_guide/Jefferson_park But if I go to one of the hike pages ( for example ) and click the destination page, it takes me to this, the only difference being that this UR...

Trailheads off of Forest Service roads are unlikely to be accessible due to the amount of snow that has fallen. Top Spur is probably very difficult, if not impossible, to get to right now. You might have better luck with a lower trailhead such as Ramona Falls or Burnt Lake, but I saw a post on Faceb...

There's a lot of animosity toward the federal government and the Forest Service out there. This article quotes Doug Gochnour, who was forest supervisor in the Malheur NF from 2008 to 2011: "It was by far the most challenging location through my career, and I worked in two forests in Oregon, three in...

That is f****d up.

This reminds me of the mother and daughter who were shot on the Pinnacle Lake Trail in 2006. Still unsolved.

Thanks for the report!

BTW your images are not showing up correctly. I tried it in both Firefox and Chrome.

Looks like the fire may have been started by two couples setting off fireworks. Unbelievable. https://www.kgw.com/article/news/local/wildfire/vehicle-of-interest-nakia-creek-fire-investigation/283-258ff1c6-db14-411c-8fb1-e31e16ebc3d4 The Sunset Fire, near Sunset Falls Campground, was no doubt starte...

Just now seeing this. We were there the weekend before you. It seems like patches of trees throughout the park burned but somehow didn't spread to the surrounding trees. With the intensity of the winds and the speed of the fire it is truly amazing (and wonderful) that all the trees in Jefferson Park...