Another blog I follow is the Wy’East Blog by Tom Kloster. Wy’East is a name attributed to Mount Hood near Portland, Oregon, since the 1890s that some believe has indigenous roots but that may not be historically true*. Mount Hood is within the Mount Hood National Forest and covers 1.1 million acres of land. One…
One of the blogs I mention on my Favorite Outdoor Hiking Blogs page is She-ra Hikes by Renee Patrick. She is a Triple Crown long distance hiker, consultant and raft packer who has been spending the last few years on the Blue Mountain Trail and Oregon Desert Trail in Eastern Oregon and advocating for the…
On Friday I met up with a good friend to for a short hike to Barclay Lake before the winter storm advisory went into affect for the Stevens Pass area. I read the latest trip reports on Washington Trails Association so I figured the road was clear enough. There was snow at the parking lot…
This is a series of posts about our Southern Oregon Coast road trip in November, you can start here if you would like. If you remember on the third day of our Southern Oregon Coast road trip, on our way south towards Brookings, I had tried to find a hike called Secret Beach that…
This is a series of posts about our Southern Oregon Coast road trip in November, you can start here if you would like. Originally in planning I thought we would stay two nights along this road in search of several hikes I had scouted online before we would eventually drive back up HWY 101…
This is a series of posts about our Southern Oregon Coast road trip in November, you can start here if you would like. If you have driven on Highway 101 along the Southern Oregon Coast, you might remember that it carves its way around the base of Humbug Mountain between the towns of Gold Coast…