Oregon Hikers

The residents of a ranch further up ended up buying the road from the department so as to keep the rednecks out and not lose access to their house. The short section of presumably still-driveable road beyond the gate is now officially private property and the owners, understandably, are not friendl...

AlpenGlowHiker wrote: ↑

May 27th, 2021, 4:53 am

Has anyone been up there after Spring 2019? Curious about conditions as I've been eyeing that approach to Three Corner Rock.

I'd be curious, as well!

Winter route looked pretty gnarly yesterday, with gaping "crevasses" in the Swift remnants. In the morning, following two or three days of rain and snow, postholing through the boulders on Monitor Ridge presented a real risk. Fresh snow down to 6000', ice up high, both in non-remarkable quantity. By...

Fwiw...

Resources to be pulled from Big Hollow Fire as season shifts, fire activity diminishes
https://www.columbian.com/news/2020/sep ... iminishes/

Well now I just feel dumb. I tried calling the forest service and couldn't get a live person, but didn't think to call JRO itself. :oops: Anyway, I just did, and they said no problem! Awesome! :) JRO never opened this year. That was just the monument staff folks in Amboy. Number on GPNF home page ....

I know people who've parked there overnight, even sleeping in their vehicles, without being hassled.

I don't know whether it's "allowed" though. Almost surely?

Call 'em... 360-449-7800 (And report back?)

By whose definition of healthy, though? An excellent question. It would have to end up being a values judgement, right? Not exactly perfect moral relativism, but somewhere closer to that end of the spectrum than we may be comfortable admitting. Seems like it, yep. Odds are the Earth might have diff...

Sadly, new fire to the north, but at least the wind is pushing away from Goat Rocks. For now.

https://inciweb.nwcg.gov/incident/7198/

It's natural to have fires. The trees burn, but then the forest recovers. The forest is more healthy for it. By whose definition of healthy, though? As I understand it, the "natural design" (if you will) of the forests around here is anticipatory of fires, sure. Have you hiked the Badger Creek trai...

drm wrote: ↑

September 15th, 2020, 8:18 am

I just did a search on "western oregon fire cycles scholarly articles" and came up with Fire and Vegetation History from the Coastal Rain Forest of the Western Oregon Coast Range.

Thanks, Dean! Very interesting.