Community Trips
The starting elevation is about 5,850 feet.Can camp at 8200 feet. Some camp between 8,500 and 9,700 feet.Devil's Kitchen about 10,000Base of Hogsback at 10,600.Mt Hood Elevation: 11,237 feetElevation gain to Camp: 2,350 feet over 1.8 milesElevation gain from camp to summit: 3,037 feet over 1.4 milesTotal elevation gain: 5,387 feet over 3.2 milesAverage round trip time: About 9 hours Route InformationThe start of the route should be clearly marked with a...
Today I summited Mt. Hood, the highest point in Oregon at 11,240 feet. My climbing partners were Matt, Jason, and Drew from CMRU and Justin Broderson from OSU. It was a first summit for Drew, Justin, and I while Matt has been up several times before. We drove up late Saturday night to camp overnight in our vehicles in the Timberline Ski Area Parking lot. We arrived to find ourselves nestled among news...
I decided to make this hike as part of a camping trip to Sherwood campground. The nice thing about Sherwood is that you can walk to the trailhead from the campground and not have to pay the Forest pass day use fee. We combined this hike with picking up the three geocaches on the trail while we were at it. I took my two 8 year old kids and they did great...
After a dumping of snow (14 inches maybe) we decided to go skiing at Timberline. The weather was looking good, and the temperature was well under-freezing (we think low 20's, but it was as cold as I ever recalll skiing, taking my glove off for 30 seconds hurt alot)It wasn't too windy, just cold. We managed to crank through alot of runs because the snow was nearly perfect and the terrain was...
Skiing on New Years Eve at Mt. Hood Meadows, a wonderful time with great snow, food, and delicious drinks.
Last night I met up with a few members of the OMC at the Tilly Jane Campground on Mt. Hood after a great day of skiing again at Timberline on the Palmer Glacier. I got to the campground around 6pm after getting a bite to eat at Government Camp after skiing. After a few hours of writing in my journal to Ellie, and rating my absurd amount of MP3's on my ipod...
Had great weather to tackle this one. I took my two 8 year olds with me and wasn't exactly sure what we were in for, other than what I had read in a couple hiking books. After a short trip on a dirt road (4410) off Hwy 44 to get to the trailhead, we grabbed a quick geocache in the area. Once on the trail, it was nice and wide and pretty...
