Oregon Hikers

does any of this threaten your house? or anything else you don't want washed away?

Driving in to beaverton campground downstream from trout creek. Jan 28 I had to shovel out a spot to put tent

Yeah, same here, I appreciate camping in the winter but don't want to camp in the snow. And drive through the snow. Thanks for posting this.

It looks like the balloon is tied to your walking stick

If anyone finds a balloon with a walking stick next to it we now know the story

Another good campground in the winter is Monty along the Metolius. Drive through Cove Palisades and keep going.

I camped at Trout Creek once - yeah, nice campground. Few people in the off season. North of Maupin, and further north past Sherar's Falls there are a lot of similar BLM campgrounds. I like Beavertail because there is good bighorn sheep habitat on the other side of the river. You can see the dots: 2...

I've been to Little Crater Lake and it's been fine, probably drier then. Better views and more crowded at Timothy Lake.

Little Crater Lake itself isn't much - a lake with some downed trees in it.

maybe they'll eventually put some trail segments for the worst road walks

Portland to crest would be another good one.

the brochure:
https://www.fs.usda.gov/Internet/FSE_DO ... 588934.pdf

I wonder how bad the road walking segments are

There have been posts asking about this before

Talking about camping is good, not everyone can do major hiking. It's fine to include links that are close to hiking. If someone posts links about, for example, wedding dresses or test tutoring they get quickly deleted, it's the principal of the thing. I really appreciate trailperspective's posts. A...