School Canyon Trail In late June I drove to the School Canyon Trailhead on the east side of the Badger […]
Archive for ‘Oregon Cascades Hikes’
An Oldie but Goodie: A Climb to Fish Creek Mountain
Exploration Has Its Rewards A while back I returned to a hike made many years ago. It had changed dramatically. […]
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Silver Falls State Park: A Waterfalls Cornucopia
177-foot South Falls During the second week of September a few years ago, I journeyed to Silver Falls State Park, […]
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A Magical Day on the Tam McArthur Rim
Black Butte Ranch On Labor Day weekend in the mid-aughts, we visited friends at their Black Butte Ranch home. It […]
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Homage to Earth Day: Climbing to the Summits of Chinidere and Tomlike Mountains
Whatum Lake to Chinidere Mountain Chinidere Mountain is one of the great low-elevation summits to visit in Northwest Oregon. It […]
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Mt. Washington Cougar Kill
Early in the millinium on a cold October day, I drove to Central Oregon to participate in the last three […]
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Big Slide Mountain in the Bull of the Woods Wilderness
Long ago I enjoyed fishing for summer steelhead on the Collowash River in the upper drainages of the Clackamas River. […]
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Burnt Lake
My vehicle was the only one parked at the Mt. Hood Wilderness Trailhead. It was a very pretty morning near […]
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A Classic Hike up Mt. Hood’s Cooper Spur
Cooper Spur is on the Northeast side of Mt. Hood, bordering the Eliot Glacier. In mid-August of an early year […]
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Paradise Park
Welcome to John Carr Outdoors! It was forecast to be a pretty summer day in Portland. What better time to […]