Oregon Hikers

We did the Tamanawas Falls hike on a Sunday. It was quite crowded; trailhead parking was full and we passed a party every couple of minutes. About half wore masks. The trail was dry until the last 0.35 miles when it got icy. A little bit of snowfall had been compressed to ice by countless boots. We ...

It seems to me, if you start tracking this pattern, organize the irrigation process to prevent fires. How would you irrigate forests? McNeil in particular is at high altitude in a wilderness area where infrastructure is prohibited. The nearest significant water is many miles away and downhill. This...

Today's email from Trailkeepers of Oregon includes news that there is now a trail from the South Neahkahnie Mountain trailhead into the town of Manzanita . They don't provide a link or a trail map, and I can't find this mentioned anywhere else. I would love to walk out the door in Manzanita and up t...

I started at the Multnomah Falls parking lot off I-84 and hiked the Multnomah-Wahkeena Loop Hike counter-clockwise. Back in the day this would have been a quick jaunt, but as the first hike of spring for a senior citizen, it presented enough of a challenge. The trail itself is in fine condition with...

I used to love wandering around the Bridal Veil Plateau, so I went on my first visit since the fire. I took the "stairway trail" up the ridge west of Coopey Creek. This trail seems have a lot less traffic. I saw only three flags, all near the top of the ridge. Below 1500 feet elevation, it was hard ...

Are people allowed to walk the road to Nesika? At the intersection with the Larch Mountain trail last weekend, I saw signs that seemed to forbid travel to the east, but the wording referred to trails, not a road. I see on their web site that Trails Club members have been working on the lodge. So I w...

I once left a car at Sherrard Point, drove another to Multnomah Falls, and hiked up the Larch Mountain trail, gaining 4000 feet elevation without having to hike back down. This was when Palmer Mill Road was open. Now you'll spend most of an hour jockeying the cars.

Along the Angels Rest trail west of the creek, there's a side boot trail leading up to the plateau. It looks like somebody's been maintaining it:
Has anybody hiked this trail lately?

Reminds me of school districts which will fail to replace old textbooks at low cost as a way of sending a message to parents. Schools don't "replace old textbooks". They buy entire new curricula, and there's nothing "low cost" about it. It's typical to review a curriculum every seven years. This pr...

The road spots at Wahkeena have concrete barriers and at M-Falls the south side of the road west of the lodge has concrete barriers Just to clarify, do you mean the concrete barriers are taking up the space where cars used to park? I saw the big sign near the Bridal Veil exit warning about parking ...