NW Adventures, Maps & GPS Tracks

Sheep Rock, Second time up Sheep Rock. Fun scramble of an iconic rock. Lots of wildlife out today. The weather was dry, but mostly cloudy. A bit breezy at the summit. Logged about 8.2 miles x 2000’ gain for this…

Sugarloaf Mountain We haven’t been up on Sugarloaf for 4-years, so we thought it would be a good day to visit. Most of the walk in is on private timberland roads, with a final 800’ forest scramble to just below…

Humbug Mountain-Curry County We took a R&R vacation to Port Orford, on the southern Oregon coast. While there for a few days, we hiked up Humbug Mountain. We did this on a Tuesday, so we didn’t see many others, but…

Water Tank Creek Explore… I noticed this creek while browsing Lidar, in the comfort of my nice warm home office. This past weekend looked like a good time to go and explore it. Lidar showed four decent size falls…but as…

Ogle Mountain Loop… It’s been 13 years since the last time on Ogle Mountain. Wow!, a lot has changed…especially in the last few years. Not much bushwhacking since the burn, but that should change back in the next decade. We…

Verdun Rock… Quick hike up to Verdun Rock which included post holing through Hells Half Acre meadow. From the meadow, the ridge scramble was kinda fun. We were on our way to tag Fuji Mountain, but the snow on the…

Thunder Mountain… It’s been a long time since I’ve visited this area. I was glad I was able to drive up to the trailhead at about 4500’, just above Lost Creek Meadow. It was pretty much snow the whole way…

Sardine Mountain via the Mayflower… A good loop for this time of year. Steep, steep, steep…right out of the car. The first 1.5 mile gains 2850’ of elevation. Beautiful fall day. Cool, crisp and sunny. Clear views of most of…

Granite Peak… Granite Peak is the high point of the Granite Mountains, within the Mojave National Preserve. This hike is all about the steep relentless boulder scramble. Like most peaks in the park, there is no trail to the top…it’s…

New York Mountain… New York One and New York Two are the two tallest peaks in the New York Mountains, in the Mojave Wilderness. I took the Keystone Canyon approach, which turned out to be a combination of a dry…

Dome Rock via Whitman Creek… Certainly not the easiest way to get to Dome Rock. I haven’t been up Whitman Creek since several weeks after the Beachie Creek fire. Back then finding the trail was easier than ever because all…

Angora Grand Tour… Another beautiful day up on the Angora Peak Grand Tour with my lovely wife Deb. Nice view north towards Cannon Beach… Balancing rock on the side on the Angora Pinnacle… Fall colors… Busy ants… This one’s called…

Saddle Mountain… I was wishing we were going to hike above the clouds…and my wish came true. No real views except for other highpoints near the same height as Saddle Mountain rising above the layer of fog. Beautiful!! With Deb…

Chucksney Mountain Loop… Found a nice hike outside of Oakridge, off forest road 19. Trailhead is near the old Box Canyon Guard Station and starts at the horse camp. I did the loop in a counter clock wise direction. Taking…

Nesmith Point A favorite of mine, although this is the first time back since the 2017 fire. While there is a lot of burned area, there are a lot of pockets of un-burned area. After summiting, we decided to go…

Black Crater Plan B, let’s do Black Crater! We got the last parking spot at the trailhead. By the time we started this hike it was just after 12:00pm. The temp was cool with clear sunny skies. As we were…

SW Utah Canyoneering – Fall 2023 Deb and I we able to pack up the Raven (camper van) and head to the war SW Utah for some much-needed adventure. We spent 3-days technical canyoneering, and 2-days backpacking, and 5-days driving…which…

Waldo Lake Kayak Camp… Every year we like to camp on the shore of Waldo Lake…weather permitting. This year the weather was beautiful…the smoke was a different story. We had planned to hike on Saturday, but due to the smoke…

Sacajawea Matterhorn Traverse – Wallowa Mountains We came here specifically for the ridge between Sacajawea and Matterhorn, but got so much more. A pretty steep huff to get to camp, in a beautiful meadow, in the Thorp Creek drainage. The…

Twin Peaks – Wallowa Mountains – Eagle Cap Wilderness Still just getting to know the Wallowas. Twin Peaks is a nice objective, giving us great views of the Wallowas and all the peaks, valleys, and ridges…plus the quick scramble to…