Oregon Hikers

I believe one of the top theories is that it's likely part of the foundation for one of the original wagon roads. Probably built by inmates and backfilled with dirt that's since washing out. That would have been pre highway and railroad.

The most important thing, is we need a place to start... It's frustrating, and painful to have family call in that X person went hiking and they haven't come back, and have NO idea where they are other than some vague area like "In the gorge, or maybe on Mt Hood?" Is there a system or procedure to ...

Recently, I read an article discussing a proprietary geolocation system called what3words. https://www.eastbaytimes.com/2022/03/28/3-words-that-could-save-a-lost-hikers-life Basically, the system is based on the idea that it is easier for most people to say and remember a few words rather than a st...

I don't have a problem with people coming up with their own internal names for places, but I really wish they'd stop posting signs with random trail names on them. I'm sure it's fun and cute to some niche of people but this can legitimately and seriously confuse people, and misdirect resources when ...

Some smartphones use the cell network as well as GPS to determine your position. Putting the phone into Airplane Mode while recording forces the phone to use only GPS so that intermittent cell phone reception doesn't throw your position off. 'Assisted GPS' is what you're thinking of, one of it's ma...

I would lean towards the woodpecker too, and after looking at other images of their tree damage it doesn't seem that they have issues working that close to the ground.

Given the chunky nature I don't think it's the case here, but deer tree rubs can be vaguely similar

He was found safe. I wonder if he gets a fine for hiking in a closed area. I've heard conflicting info on whether the "Rock of the Ages Ridge" trail is closed. I can assure you, RoA is most definitely closed, and largely non-existent. We've had to call safety on that trail multiple times and pull t...

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Right. Has anybody heard of any actual prosecution at any level for violating any of these various orders nationwide? My guess is that in Skamania County, nobody will get prosecuted unless they need a SAR or somehow otherwise make a nuisance of themselves. And while the impact is county-wide, I exp...

measured distances that are about 20% longer In my experience, it's easy for two identical devices to be off up to 10% simply due to different sampling rates. In general, the more data points there are the longer the line is. Phones don't tend to record points very often, and Garmin devices (eg, th...