oregon

I had a permit for Yellowstone (posted in separate thread seeing if anyone wanted to go since everyone else pulled out), but rain was in the forecast, and I wasn't sure whether I'd be able to make the water crossings or get upstream in the backcountry to find a semi-secret waterfall (it's...

Days: 128 - 153 Miles: 1679.2 - 2151.9 (-48 miles due to active fire) Zero Days: 5 How can I possibly summarize day 128 into a digestible blurb that will not have people wishing I would just stop talking? I probably can't... This is the day that I would FINALLY cross into Oregon. Yeah, I took...

My wife and I on the first weekend of March went to North Central/Eastern Oregon to Cottonwood Canyon State Park. We ended up doing an overnight backpack along the Lost Corral Trail. The area was very pretty and had a very welcoming demeanor (The ranger and info stations had public free to use...

On our way back from Portland, we decided to check out the Strawberry Mountain Wilderness, which is located just south of Prairie City in Oregon. Our original intentions were to stay over for two nights at Strawberry Lake and on the second day hike to the top of Strawberry Mountain...

The first destination on our trip last summer was Crater Lake National Park. The trip started the first day by leaving Utah and making the 12 hour drive to Lakeview, Oregon. It was a long drive, but it shortened our driving time drastically the second day. We did make a brief stop at the salt...

The fires this year pushed us out of a couple different places that we wanted to go for our Fall Campout. Luckily I have a long list of places I want to go. Northeastern Oregon had dodged the fires this year and so we made our way down to Troy, Oregon to hike the Wenaha River Trail. I had...

Since I had to speak at a conference in Portland this month, we decided to make a road trip out of it and stop along the way to enjoy some of the sights and trails of our neighbor to the North. As usual, all did not go according to plan! We began with a long drive from Napa to Bend, through a...

Ran up to Bend last week to visit the High Desert Museum. Time was short and snow's still packed up on the Cascades, so hiking options were limited. I ended up taking an afternoon walk around Smith Rock State Park, a popular rock climbing destination north of Redmond. Daylight was already...

I had been wanting to do a trip to Eagle Cap for years, so with the husband laid up with a torn achilles, the mutt and I escaped for a long weekend in September. We started at the Two Pan trailhead and set up camp by Sunshine Lake. It was a nice little spot, had it to ourselves. We spent the...

Heart: Is this place for real? Am I in Heaven? Mind: No. this is just Oregon. Eagle Creek Canyon if you wanna get technical. ... Heart: Oh. well it feels like I am in heaven! I am anxiously waiting for the time I get to go back and visit this amazing place! Eagle Creek Canyon in the Columbia...

Another hike from my trip to Oregon. Also cross posted from my blog at www.livevicariouslythroughus.blogspot.com I'm a big fan of slot canyons. As I was researching for the trip, I stumbled on a picture of Oneonta Gorge. It immediately went on the "MUST DO" list for while we were in Oregon...

Posted from my blog at www.livevicariouslythroughus.blogspot.com The next stop on our Oregon trip was at Silver Falls State Park. It's a beautiful and peaceful park, about 30 miles east of Salem. I'm sure it's crowded on the weekends, but in the middle of the week it was very crowd-free. We...

I took a trip up to Oregon over the Memorial Day weekend and then some. I'll be posting several of the segments of the trip on here as they make for good places to see. Reposted from my blog at www.livevicariouslythroughus.blogspot.com Friday night we made it to the condo in Otter Rock...