Popular Trips in Three Sisters Wilderness
A great local hike with awesome views, Black Crater sits right above Sisters, Oregon and offers "front seat" views of about at least 8 volcanic mountains in the Oregon Cascades. (Hood, Jefferson, Three Finger Jack, North, Middle, and South Sister, and Broken Top)On the day of this hike the weather was gorgeous: sunny with only a bit of wind on the summit. The hike itself is steep and about 8 miles long. About a 2500...
24" of snow the week prior. Skied with friends Hank and Jeff for part of the day. Had some great off-piste runs, including hitting ~all of the 360o catchline road ("the eye") and dropping into the cirque thru the pinnacles ("threading"). Doing both in one day is what is called "threading the needle."Had one run with a manager at Mt Bachelor. Bert? Anyway he was a good skier and had a great run and...
This is my favorite trip. The hike up to Green Lakes follows a stream with lots of small waterfalls. The hike of the North Ridge of Broken Top is very cool, and the views are breathtaking. Watch out for the signs -- they point the way to the South approach and mislead us (see our little detour on the track).
in 2007 I made this hike with my sons Daniel and Michael. A couple of the pictures are really from my 2008 solo hike which was my 5th hike up the South Sister.
2" of snow the night prior with storms expected to clear by the end of the day. Rime ice at higher elevations was keeping the summit and west-side lifts closed, so spend the majority of morning on Rainbow lift.After a late lunch discovered the west-side lifts were open. Had a few great runs over there. Operators were nice enough to give the benefit of the doubt on closing time and so got...
I got to the Devil's Lake trail head and started on the South Sister Summit trail at about 10am. It was hot at first in the woods but the wind was blowing like crazy about halfway up and then it started to snow. I almost decided not to make the summit but I did. Good trip but hard!
12 mile, 8 hour hike partly on designated trails and overland exploring off trails requiring a GPS to navigate, this trek through mountain meadows and alpine lakes had some awesome vistas. Minimum elevation 6,000', maximum 7,300'. Although prepared for the worse, I was lucky to return to my starting point just before a good 4 hour storm delivered rain, wind and sounds of thunder to the area.
A great day. Mt Bachelor has about 3500 vertical feet in a ski area that covers an entire mountain. This day I skied mostly expert runs to avoid people. Hiked to the summit and skied over the backside. A couple of these pics were taken on days other than the one I skied, just to give a better flavor.
2012 Mid-August backpacking trip to Oregon’s Three Sisters
Wilderness area, where we completed a 40 mile loop around Middle and North
Sister. This trip had a little of everything; official and unofficial trails,
high alpine meadows, rugged barren volcanic landscapes, dense forests, lakes
surrounded by snow, and of course near continuous fantastic views of the Three
Sisters and other surrounding lesser peaks. For more info and pictures see
http://www.trekkerdave.com/#/content/BackpackingTrips/2012%20-%20Middle%20and%20North%20Sister%20Loop/.
