Guides and Trips
Trips
I have been dying to visit Goat Rocks in Washington for quite some time now and this weekend finally got the chance. I wanted to time it so that we would miss the deep snow at elevation but the wildflowers would be in full bloom, while also missing mosquito season hopefully. Our plan was to hike up the Goat Creek Valley, camp overnight at Goat Lake then return via Goat Ridge. In...
After a beautiful drive through the fog-filled valley to Santiam Pass Nate and Aaron led Matt and I to the trailhead for Mt. Washington near Hoodoo ski resort. Nate had concern about the snow that had fallen in the area the previous weekend but there had been warm temps and I figured it had probably all melted. I was wrong. When we got to the trailhead we could clearly see the upper...
Saturday Emily and I climbed Pelican Butte in Southern Oregon. It is a non-active Shield Volcano with nearly symmetrical shape besides the broad glacier cirque which makes up the popular Northeast Bowls. It is on my list of Cascade Volcanoes that I want to ski and with access year-round from the West Side road around the northwest side of Klamath Lake March seemed like an ok time to give it a...
The original plan had been for Chris and I to get up to Timberline super early and take the Magic Mile lift to the base of the Palmer and head up from there for a hopeful ski descent from the summit. Things actually started to go wrong (at least for me) when I decided to go out for drinks for Layne and Miwa’s birthday last night at the Crow Bar and...
After a leisurely morning of sleeping in because the snow still sucked for skiing and rain was predicted in the mountains Emily and I decided to head to the coast instead for a hike and then to meet up with Kevin and Alexa who went surfing at Otter Rocks. The hike was super easy at only 5 miles and Drift Creek Falls was beautiful. The suspension bridge 75’ over the river below...
After a long day of rafting and a late night drive home I was surprised to be able to drag Emily out of bed for a summit attempt at Three Fingered Jack. But first... let me give you a background story of why I decided this could be done... So, one night at Ruby’s I was discussing the idea of climbing Three Fingered Jack and how difficult it would be because of the...
This weekend I really wanted to go on a trip that would push my endurance to the limit after having just turned 30 and questioning how my body is holding up still. Hartz suggested that we ski the Hayden Glacier on Middle Sister and since he hadn’t been to the summit before I suggested we go to the top as well. This seemed like a great trip to me because we were...
My friend Aaron Hartz has been through a pretty rough couple months getting the shaft from the school of Oceanography at OSU and also splitting up with his fiance, so Chris Holm and I decided it needed to be a guys weekend with Hartz doing something exciting in the outdoors... with skis of course. We headed out early on Saturday morning towards Crater Lake with all of our backcountry ski...
This weekend Emily and I drove south to Mt. McLoughlin. We left Saturday evening and camped out overnight at the trailhead. It rained pretty hard overnight and we were glad to be in the tent. Thankfully when we woke up the skies had cleared a bit and I could tell the clouds would burn off under the sun. We started up the trail which was at first dry ground and then...
This weekend Emily and I headed to Mt. Bailey with my friend Ben Nielsen, Lauren Parker Ben’s friend Brian. Emily and I drove down to Diamond Lake on Friday night after I got out of work hoping that we would have reception to get in touch with the guys. We got to the lake at midnight but everything looked quiet so I decided I’d get up early and call in the morning....
This was an afternoon biking adventure on the trails aroud Silver Falls State Park in Oregon. These trails don't see much use so we found ourselves alone in the woods for the trip. My chain snapped off on the uphill section to start off so I ended up running with my bike up the hill as Emily biked ahead of me. On the way down the trail I was ahead just using...
After the helicopter training yesterday I decided to go exploring MacDonald Dunn on my bike again. This time I rode over Chip Ross Park up Dan's Trail over to the Oak Creek trailhead from my apartment. The Loop was about 10 miles and was awesome. I got home and ate a burger... not really a burger because I couldn't find a bun to go with it. I spent yesterday evening trying to...
Before picking my mom up at the airport I decided to go for a hike in the Columbia River Gorge up Wahkeena Falls. The trail I took climbed steeply up to the top of Wahkeena Falls and then up to where the spring that feeds the falls comes out of the ground. It was amazing to see a decent sized creek simply come out of nowhere in the ground. The trail crossed...
Just a quick track file of the route at Oak Creek MacDunn Forest of the trail I typically take running or biking across the Uproute Trail and then down Extendo. Enjoy and feel free to download it!
After Sunset Bay we drove to the Umpqua Sand dunes. I can't wait to come back here in a month or two with my buddies from Corvallis for a weekend of ATV rentals and bbq's. There are also shops for sandboarding, a new sport that is blowing up on the coast and on sand dunes around the U.S. There are actually boards made specifically for the sport with special slick coatings on the...
On Saturday Kendra, Adam, Emily, Brendan and I decided to hike up Mt. Tumalo while the others returned to ski the cinder cone across the road from us. We never saw them from our climb but new they were there. It was a truly beautiful day and we all ended up hiking in long sleeve shirts to the open summit. Kendra and Adam brought their dog Jake along who seemed to have...
This weekend Emily and decided it was time to go on another short hike before I had to work at Ruby's. We drove out towards the Mt. Jefferson Wilderness area with guidebooks in hand. When we passed by Detroit Lake I was absolutely amazed at how low the water level was. When Kalin and I had passed by the lake in mid July on our Jefferson attempt it reminded me of Lake...
Today after we left Shilo's Eleanor, Chris, and Toshi and I headed down 126 to south of Florence on the coast to the Tahkenitch dunes for a 7 mile hike. Eleanor was in a little under the weather from last night but she decided to go along which I thought was great. The hike took us over some dunes to the ocean where we walked down the beach for a few miles...
This is a GPS Track of some of the unkown trails that have been made at MacDunn. I'm not sure who carved some of these out but they are a lot of fun. If you have been lucky enough to find this post feel free to download the track file and check them out yourself. This was done in 2007 so they may or may not still be there. The sections at...
This is a track of me doing some exploration of MacDunn and ultimately ending up exiting (on the left side track) out of some private property so beware of that. It was for the most part on forest service roads. As a disclaimer please check out the private property boundaries before following this track. I accidentally ended up in private property and it appeared as my only exit which is why I...
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