Oregon Hikers

I have inreach and pay $12 per month, that doesn't seem too unreasonably high I only use it to send a message once a day. I get 10 messages per month and almost never exceed that, then 50 cents per message Other plans are pretty expensive if you want to send waypoints as you're hiking and so forth Y...

hmmm... I seem to have stumbled into a controversial topic for you or maybe not you but that community

Yeah, Inreach works pretty good

I think there's even a way for two inreach users to communicate with each other

if you had an emergency in the wilderness where you can't get cell phone, would these radio frequencies allow you to reach someone so they could notify the authorities so they could rescue you?

"sorry for my water bottle in the shot"

that's all right, you're forgiven, it's supposed to be a beer bottle I believe

I've seen zillions of those stink bugs recently in the city, and in Seattle

some clever person created a thread for snow level 2022 and beyond

viewtopic.php?f=7&p=225467#p225467

I was at the Rogue River a couple months ago and the road from Galice to the Graves Creek Trailhead was blocked.

I drove from Wolf Creek to the trailhead which was fine.

thanks for report

I feel spring is coming

totally agree, congress should allocate small amount of funds for trail maintenance

yeah! and the root problem is there aren't enough funds to maintain trails so the FS has user fees for parking at trailheads to pay for trail maintenaance. But the only law that allows this requires that they provide those amenities. But then most of the fees have to go to pay for those amenities th...

I don't normally post on the internet when I've done something illegal, but I have flaunted the NW forest pass requirement before. I have also bought them before. Sometimes I just put out my expired permit. Now I have a senior access pass that cost $10 for a lifetime which I always put on my dash. I...