Oregon Hikers

pickups have good ground clearance. I have a Tacoma. 2WD.

wow! great story! great it ended well. Thanks for posting.

nice it was in good weather and you were in cell phone range

inreach would tell them your location which would be helpful

I go out by myself also. Not too much deep snow though. I'll have to keep this in mind.

In a couple months things should get much better. More supply. More people already vaccinated so less demand. If you sign up at getvaccinated.oregon.gov they'll email you with an invitation to get an appointment which is routine, no overloaded crashing website with a mob of people vying for a vaccin...

I didn't know you could get there from there. I'll have to check that out sometime, thanks. I was just looking at it on topo map.

same here I just close it and restart what I like about the adam link is you can hit "usgs topo" which overlays on top so you can see exactly where the snow is another thing is, on any of those, if it shows any snow at all, there's probably too much on any road to drive on it, or mountain passes are...

welcome

lot's of good hiking and backpacking in Pacific Northwest, you've come to the right place

I was looking at overnight backpack in Olympic National Park. They charge a $6 permit fee plus $8 per night. Plus they have a limited number of people allowed per day.

hmmm... I don't think it's legal for them to charge for access to the National Forest they can charge for parking at a trailhead to pay for the amenities there so, maybe they can charge for the cost of administering the permit? my complaint is they're restricting the number of people that can go on ...

"bring your tick spray"

just to be clear, you want to apply permethrin at home and let it dry, like over night

on pants, gaiters, socks,...

don't apply permethrin to your skin, unhealthful

you could apply DEET to your skin

nice stretch of weather next week.

I'm thinking about a trip to the coast of the Olympics in northwest Washington