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Well, another early season weather forecast, and lack of planning time, forced me to settle on a stay home on Saturday and get stuff done day, and a hike on Sunday. Sunday’s hike was a good one. Part trail, and…

Well, here it is, the Thursday before a long weekend and the weather is still not stable enough to plan… As we threw out many options, like Deception, Enchantments, Diamond…I remembered a route on Middle Sister that I had always…

After warming up on a 5.9 bolted route called Slab Happy, we headed over to attempt the Smith Rock classic, Voyage of the Cow Dog, a 3-pitch 5.9 bolted route with tons of exposure. Pitch one, a 9-bolt face climb,…

Pipe Rock (HCR) Wow! An incredible climb. Lots of work + scary as hell = Fun Shit! Pipe Rock is a 250’ pinnacle located in the Canyon Creek drainage, which is part of the South Santiam drainage…near Sweet Home. Because…

Three more trips up Rooster Rock…in three days. Saturday with Rob, Ember, Marty, and Sue. Monday with Tom Davidson, and Ann Ames. And Tuesday with Mike Pennington, and Verena Winter. Beautiful T-shirt weather all three days. A great way to…

Today we made a run up to both Nasty Rocks, for a Nasty Rock Twofer. A good conditioner that gains 2200’ in the first two miles, then an additional 2000’ of up’s and down’s along the ridge.      …

Monkey Face…DONE! Thanks to Mark and Natasha Denyer, for the lead and the encouragement. Wow, what a climb! Everything and more, of what I was expecting. We decided to do this on Friday instead of the weekend to minimize the…

Well, it’s Rooster Rock season, and this is the first of several trips up, I plan on taking. Today it’s with Rob and Sheri. Traffic was light, and the weather was perfect. There was a team of two just starting…

Rainy on the western slopes, so east we go. Rob and Ember have never climbed Squaw Rock, so that’s what we decided on, Chris and Emma came along too. We all meet at the start of the backcountry road at…

Sunny Sunday, decided to do the Whetstone Jawbone Loop with Rob, Marty,and Sue. Sunshine, Creek crossings, and abandoned mines…                 More pics here… 🙂

Another rainy Saturday, although the rains held off long enough for me to get a quick run up to Stahlman Point. This is a short 5-mile loop with about 1400’ of gain that is right behind my cabin in Detroit.…

Stayed up to watch the Lunar Eclipse. I chose the parking lot at Jackson Middle School, because it’s just down the street from my home, and it has a large open view of the sky. I parked at about 10:20pm,…

Another sunny warm weekend at Smith Rock. JJ, Jacqueline, Chris, and I met at the parking lot at 9:30am Saturday. Since JJ and Jacque hadn’t been to Smith before, the Marsupials was the area to go…and of course, IMHO, the…

You don’t drive all the way Mitchell, Oregon to do just one hike, so we decided to do another hike on the way home. Sutton Mountain turned out to be a good choice, as it was short, steep, and had…

Since the first time I saw Sheep Rock, I’ve wanted to visit its summit, and with the rains forecasted for the western side, this seemed like a great option for the weekend. Our plan was to drive out past Mitchell, Friday…

Did a trip up to Nesmith today with Sue, Chris, and John. Don’t really do this hike for the views, so it’s a good one for cloudy foggy days. Took a little detour through the woods, which is always fun…

A trip following the girls up the Wahkeena trail, to Devils Rest (pile-O-rocks), then back down making a large loop. Not knowing much about this part of the gorge…I just followed along for the ride with great company…Emma, Ember, and…

I’ve been looking at finishing this project for a few years… Putting up a route on the pinnacle I call Little Angora. Back in 2011, myself and Tom Kline put up a bolt ladder up the vertical start of the…

Well, since I planned for a little adventure climb in the North Oregon coast on Sunday, I thought I’d head down on Saturday morning and check out the Twin Peaks I’d been looking at for a while. There is no…

Was a warm weekend at Smith…eight of us met at the parking lot Saturday morning at 9:30am. We decided to head over to Staender Ridge for the day. We climbed a number of sport routes on Adit Rock, then moved…