Various Trails — Undated Trail Log Collection
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This is a worn, aged field notebook or trail log booklet, held together with brass fasteners, belonging to Dean Rasmussen, Rt 1 Box 151, Beavercreek, Oregon, and Richard Van Dorain, Rt 1 Box 138, Beavercreek, Oregon (names and addresses written in handwriting on the cover). The notebook contains typewritten trail mileage logs for numerous named trails in what appears to be the Bull of the Woods / Collawash River / Clackamas River area of Oregon's Mt. Hood National Forest. Each entry lists landmarks, creek crossings, bridges, shelters, junctions, section line survey corners, and cumulative mileage. Some pages have handwritten annotations and calculations added in pencil or ink. The following trails are documented:
Bagby Trail #45
Granite Forks Shelter to South Fork Trail
Granite Forks Shelter — 0.00
Sec line 26-35 6S 6E cor 1340' West — 0.35
Sluice Creek — 1.75
Junction Tom's Mdw. Trail — 2.60
Trout Creek Way — 3.64
Collawash River Crossing & bridge — 3.70
Collawash Road — 3.75
Alder Swamp and Cabin — 4.25
Small Creek — 4.39
Sec line 10-3 7S 6E cor. 25' west — 4.40
Cat Creek — 4.54
Farm Trail — 4.59
Small Creek — 4.89
Hot Spg. Fork Crossing & Bridge — 5.59
Sec line 8-9 7S 6E cor 2114' North — 5.84
Pink Creek — 5.89
Dutch Creek — 6.98
Dutch Creek Shelter — 7.02
Sec line 7-8 7S 6E ¼ cor 1650' North — 7.13
Thunder Creek Crossing Foot Bridge — 7.22
50 foot Puncheon Bridge — 7.72
Junction Pansy Way — 7.81
Bagby Trail #45 — Continued
Pin Creek — 7.82
30 foot Puncheon Bridge — 8.12
Sec line crossing 7-18 7S 6E sec. cor. 508' West — 8.17
Sec line 13-18 7S 6E sec. cor. 130' North — 8.27
15 foot Puncheon Bridge — 8.31
Rock Creek and Bridge — 8.74
Ferry Creek and Bridge — 9.18
30 foot Puncheon Bridge — 9.24
Sec line 13-14 7S 5E ¼ cor 350 feet North — 9.46
Blister Creek and Bridge — 9.77
Pegleg Falls — 10.12
Sec line 14-23 7S 5E sec cor 1125 feet West — 10.54
Nohorn Creek and Bridge — 10.68
15 foot Puncheon Bridge — 11.38
Junction South Fork Trail — 11.47
Hot Spg. Fork of Collawash — 11.61
Pansy Basin Trail Junction — 12.06
Bagby Guard Station — 12.11
Big Slide Way
Welcome Lake's Trail to Dickey Creek Way
Welcome Lake and Camp — 0.00
Dry Creek Bed — 0.07
Creek Crossing — 0.90
Foot trail to West Lake — 1.00
Trail to Shriners Peak — 1.10
Cub Lake — 1.20
Dickey Creek Way — 1.30
On to Bull of the Woods Lookout Via Welcome Lake's Trail — 2.80
Bull of the Woods Trail
Elk Lake Trail to Bull of the Woods Lookout
Start, Elk Lake Trail — 0.00
Collawash River crossing and Br. — 0.05
Fair size creek — 0.66
Sec line 14-23 T7S R6E sec cor 815' West — 1.05
Fair size creek — 1.30
Sec line 22-23 T7S R6E sec cor 490' North — 1.40
End of steep climb — 2.05
Shallow lake 50' dia. W. of tr. — 2.64
Dickey Creek Trail and Halfway shelter — 2.85
Sec line (no data) — 3.60
Sec line 27-28 T7S R6E 836' N. to sec cor — 3.95
End of switchbacks and good view of Mt. Lowe — ?
Sec line 27-28 T7S R6E ¼ cor close by — 4.45
Sign "Pasola Mt. Camp" – water — 5.55
Sec line 28-33 T7S R6E sec cor ? West — 5.80
Sec line 32-33 T7S R6E sec cor 856' North — 6.20
The Farm Trail — 7.00
Bull of the Woods Trail — con'd
Meadow (100' x 100') — 7.29
Sec line 5-32 T7 & 8S R6E sec cor 607' East (should be ¼ corner) — 7.75
Sign "north Dickey" — 7.89
Sec line 5-8 T8S R6E ¼ cor 1208' East — 8.45
Pansy Basin Trail — 9.00
Sec line 8-17 T8S R6E sec cor 1442' East — 9.91
Water trail — 10.01
Bull-of-the-Woods Lookout — 10.15
Dickey Creek Trail #547
Farm trail to Welcome Lakes Way
Start, Farm trail (3.7 miles above Alder Swamp cabin) — 0.00
Sec line 16-21 T7S R6E ¼ cor 640' East — 0.10
Medium sized creek (12') — 0.80
Small creek — 1.35
Farm Creek — 1.64
Sec line 21-22 T7S R6E ¼ cor 400' North — 1.71
Small creek — 2.14
Small creek — 2.25
Halfway shelter — 2.35
Bull-of-Woods trail — 2.40
Meadow (100' x 200') — 2.72
Sec line 23-26 T7S R6E sec cor 400' East (should be 22-27) — 3.30
Small creek and bridge — 3.80
Small creek — 3.85
Small creek — 4.19
Sec line 26-27 T7S R6E ¼ cor 640' South — 4.20
Large Meadow (500' x100') — 5.00
Small creek — 5.25
Sec line 27-34 T7S R6E ¼ cor 450' East — 5.42
Dickey Creek Trail #547 — con'd
Sec line 33-34 T7S R6E sec cor 240' South (Should be ¼ cor?) — 6.25
Dickey Creek crossing — 6.50
Sec line 33-34 T7S R6E sec cor 1500' East — 7.85 (partially obscured)
Open rock slide — 7.85
Sec line 4-9 T8S R6E ¼ cor 411' West — 7.86
Old campsite, water — 8.05
Open rock slide — 8.80
Trail to Big Slide lake (200 yd) — 9.05
Sec line 9-16 T8S R6E sec cor 1348' West — 9.20
Big Slide Way — 9.55
Water trail — 9.85
Welcome Lakes Way — 10.13
Bull-of-the-Woods — 11.13
End of road to Bull-of-the-Woods by this route — 19.90
Handwritten notes: 9.5 / 6.5 / 3.0
East Mountain Trail
South Fork Trail at Baty Butte to Fish Creek Trail
Start, South Fork Trail — 0.00
Sign, "Baty Bu L.O. ½ mi. Phone" — 0.16
Rock slide w/view to south — 0.25
Open spot, view to SW and W — 0.45
Sec line 4-33 T6 & 7S R5E sec cor 150' (?) East — 0.60
Camel's Back Way — 0.75
Sec line 33-34 T6S R5E sec cor ? South — 0.85
Middle of open ridge, .3 mi. long — 0.90
Sec line 34-35 T6S R5E sec cor ? South — 2.02
Small creek — 2.05
Thunder Mt. Way, also 300' x 100' meadow and campground (Thunder Mt. L.O. 1.29) — 2.15
Skookum Lake — 2.50
Small Cr. and Pasture — 3.11
Open ridge top — 4.35
Sign "East Mt." — 4.55
Trout Creek Way — 5.95
Sec line 19-30 T6S R6E 1050' west to sec cor — 6.18
End of open ridge top — 6.33
Sec line 18-19 T6S R6E sec cor 3600' West — 7.45
Fish Creek Trail — 8.19
Elk Lake Trail #47
Bagby Trail to Battle Creek Shelter & forest boundary
Bagby Trail — .00
Paste Creek — .40
Dry Creek — .70
Peat Creek — 2.60
Tom's Meadow — 2.80
Bull-of-the-Woods Trail — 3.10
Buckeye Creek — 3.20
Buckeye Creek Way — 4.10
Happy Creek Trail Junct. — 4.60
Happy Creek & Campsite — 5.50
Small Creek — 5.60
View of East Side Shriners Pk. — 6.25
Small Creek — 7.40
Small Creek — 7.74
Russ Creek Way — 7.95
Blitzen Creek — 8.20
Russ Creek — 8.40
Sec line 36-31, T7S, R6E sec cor 865' North — 8.45
Jazz Creek — 9.80
Boone's Foot Way — 9.92
Oh Boy Forest Camp — 10.15
Collawash River Crossing — 10.33
Small Creek — 10.73
Sugar Pine Tree — 11.05
Sec line 12-7, T8S, R6E, sec cor 1976' South — 11.25
Elk Lake Trail #47 — con'd
Small Creek — 11.35
Falls in Elk Lake Creek — 11.70
Sec line 12-13, T8S, R6E 1/4 cor 431' West — 11.80
Pine cone Creek — 11.95
Sec line 13-14, T8S, R6E ¼ cor 589' South — 12.60
Janus Butte Trail — 12.80
Knob Rock Creek — 13.15
Welcome Lakes Creek — 13.17
Welcome Lake Trail — 13.35
Elk Lake Crossing Crossing — 13.53
Sec line 14-23, T8S, R6E, ¼ cor 272' East — 13.67
Elk Lake Creek crossing — 14.82
Sec line 23-26, T8S, R6E sec cor 266' West — 15.09
Sec line 26-27 T8S, R6E sec cor 872' North — 15.15
Battle Creek — 16.05
Battle Creek Shelter — 16.25
Battle Creek Shelter to Elk Lake — 4.10
Handwritten calculations: 13.35 / 8.90 / 4.95 / 5.00 / 10.15 and 16.25 / 2.80 / 13.45 / 4.95 and 13.35 / 12.4 / .55 / 11.85 / 2.80 (partially illegible)
Farm Trail #531
Bagby Trail to Bull-of-the-Woods Trail
Start, Bagby Trail — 0.00
Sec line 9-16 T7S R6E sec cor 1050' East — 1.24
Sec line 9-16 T7S R6E ¼ cor 1100' West — 1.37
Small spring — 2.51
Dickey Creek trail — 3.31
Sec line 16-21 T7S R6E sec cor 1452' West — 3.42
Sec line 20-21 T7S R6E sec cor 800' North — 3.77
Old Campsite — 5.56
Pansy Creek Way trail — 5.61
Meadow (100' x 50') — 5.66
Way trail to Pansy Basin trail — 5.77
Lily Lake — 5.77
Meadow (75' x 75') — 6.61
Terrace Meadows — 7.15
Sec line 29-32 R6E ¼ cor 495' West — 7.54
Bull-of-the-Woods Trail — 7.96
On to Bull-of-the-Woods L.O. — 11.11
Fish Creek Trail #510
Sandstone Road to Fish Creek Mountain Lookout
Sandstone Road — .00
East Mtn. Trail Junction — .50
Bars — 1.25
Whale Head Trail — 2.85
Fish Creek Mtn. Lookout — 3.22
To High Lake via Whale Head Trail — 3.89
Granite Peaks Trail #49
Granite Peaks Road to Skyline Trail
Granite Peaks Road — .00
Section line 31-36 T6S, R6-7E sec cor 460' South — .20
Section line 31-6 T6-7S, R7E sec corn 410' West — .40
Edge of blowdown burn — 2.40
South end of burn — 3.10
Buckeye Creek Way — 3.30
Saddle Springs & Skyline Tr. — 3.80
Continuing on Skyline Trail:
To Mt. Lowe L.O. Station — 5.2
To Rho Ridge Guard Station — 8.3
To Hawk Mt. L.O. Station — 13.9
To Collawash Mountain — 16.7
To Skyline Road, Approx. — 22.2
Happy Creek Trail #48
Elk Lake Trail to Skyline Trail and Graham's Pass.
Elk Lake Trail — .00
Happy Creek Shelter & Way — 1.50
Happy Creek — 1.90
Blitzen Creek — 3.40
Russ Creek Way — 3.80
Bars — 5.20
Skyline Trail at Grahams' Pass — 5.70
Molalla Trail #44
Bagby Guard Station to Forest Boundary
Bagby Guard Station — 0.00
Hot Springs Fork Collawash — 0.16
Sec line bet. 27-28, T7S R5E ¼ cor 300' South — 0.60
Hugh Creek — 2.10
Nohorn Creek Way going north — 2.34
Nohorn Creek Way going south — 2.70
Nohorn Creek and large Creek coming in here — 2.72
Trail not maintained from this point on
Sec line 28-29, T7S R5E 970' south to ¼ cor — 2.86
Sec line crossing 29-30, T7S 5E 2275' North to sec cor. — 4.39
Boundary of Forest — 5.34
(also 200 x 75' pasture, good feed, spring and old camp site.)
Mother Lode Way #534
Welcome Lake's Ridge Way to Welcome Lake's Trail
Welcome Lake's Trail — 0.00
Sec line 17-18 T8S R6E 248 links south to ¼ corner — 1.10
Foot trail to Pansy Lake — 1.20
Sec. Line 17-18 T8S R6E 363 links north to ¼ corner — 1.35
N.F. Mother Lode Cr. (Dry) — 1.6(illegible)
Sec Line 17-20 T8S R6E cor 1970 links West — 2.10
Dry Cr. Bed 15' wide S.F. Mother Lode Creek — 2.10(illegible)
Open Rock Slide good view
Sec Line 20-21 T8S R6E 354 Links north to ¼ corner — 3.11(illegible)
Twin Lakes Way Crossing — 3.40(illegible)
Old Broken Down Cabin — 3.46
Trail to Old Mine Shaft — 3.60
Sec Line 21-28 T8S R6E (number illegible) Links West to ¼ cor — 3.48(illegible)
Small Spring — 4.56(illegible)
Mother Lode Creek Crossing(illegible) — 5.19(illegible)
Welcome Lake's Ridge Way — (illegible)
Sec Line 27-(illegible) T8S South to ¼ (illegible) — 5.26
On to Battle Creek and Elk Lake Trail via Welcome Lake's Way — 5.76
Pansy Basin Trail #530
Bagby Guard Station to Bull-of-the-Woods Trail.
Bagby Guard Station — .00
Sec line 26-35 T7S R5E ¼ cor 220' East — 1.85
Small Meadow 200' x 25' — 2.85
Meadow 250' x 50' — 3.00 (handwritten: 5.66)
Small Meadow 100' x 25' — 3.15
Sec line 26-1 T7-8S R5E 716 Links east to corner — 3.69
Sec line 36-1 T7-8S R5E Township cor 110' east — 3.74
Small Lake 75'x25' — 3.84
Small Creek — 3.95
Small Creek — 4.21
Foot Trail toward Terrace Mdws. — 4.31/4.35 (handwritten annotations)
Small Creek — 4.39
Small Creek — 4.63
Small Creek — 4.67
Sec Line 6-7 T8S R6E 90 Links to ¼ corner — 3.84/4.84 (handwritten)
Creek Crossing — 2.76/5.90 (handwritten)
Pansy Basin Camp & Foot Trail to Pansy Lake — 2.72/5.94 (handwritten)
South Dickey Lake — 1.7/6.70 (handwritten)
Meadow 50' x 50' — 1.8/6.80 (handwritten)
Water & some feed 150 yds. — 1.8/6.85 (handwritten)
Bull-of-the-Woods Trail — 1.1/7.56 (handwritten)
On to Bull-of-the-Woods L.O. via Bull-of-the-Woods trail — 8.66
Handwritten: 8.16 / 5.9 / 2.7 (or similar, partially illegible)
Rho Creek Trail #533
Skyline Trail to Clackamas River
0.00
Rho Ridge — 0.1
Rho Creek — 0.3
Hunter Creek Way — 0.9
Bars in Fence — 1.1
Fadesway Springs — 1.7
Lowe Creek Way — 3.0
Tumble Creek — 4.2
Clackamas River
Scorpion Mountain Way #543
Round Lake Trail to Elk Lake Trail
Round Lake Trail — 0.00
Cache Box Sheep Camp — 0.20
Mary Ann Spring — 0.90
Scorpion Mtn. Way east to Rho Ridge — 1.00
Dry Creek Bed — 1.40
East Fork Collawash River — 2.20
Creek Crossing — 2.80
Trapper Cabin Sheep Camp — 2.90
Mansfield Mtn. Way & Cr. Crossing — 3.30
Cr. Crossing Beaver Dam Sheep Cp. — 3.70
East Fork Way — 4.30
Scorpion Ridge Way — 4.80
Small Creek — 5.20
Meadow, Old Sheep Camp — 5.50
Old Trail Camp — 6.10
Creek Crossing — 6.30
Humbug Ridge Way — 7.60
Creek Crossing — 8.70
Creek Crossing — 8.90
Welcome Lake Trail (Willamette) — 9.30
Elk Lake Creek — 9.40
Battle Creek Shelter and Elk Lake Trail — 9.50
Skyline Trail #300
Clackamas River Road to Skyline Road
Clackamas River Road — 0.00
Clackamas River & Cable Car — 0.01
Sign "Water trail Water 400'" — 2.55
Old Campsite — 2.56
Big Burn Way — 3.06
Lowe Creek Way — 3.26
Tarzan Way — 4.31
Burnt Granite L.O. Way — 5.01
Saddle Springs Camp Granite Peak Trail — 6.32
Green Ridge Way — 7.6
Mt. Lowe L.O. — 7.7
Happy Creek Way — 8.1
Jim's Meadow Way — 8.7
Gate on Trail — 9.8
Rho Ridge Gd. Sta. & Rho Cr. Tr. — 10.3
Happy Creek Trail & Graham Pass — 10.9
Hunt's Stock Way Trail — 11.3
Boone's Foot Way — 11.6
Fawm Meadow Way — 12.0
Fawm Meadow — 12.1
Trail to Reed's Mdw. Camp — 13.0
Fawn Creek Way — 13.3
Sup. L. O. Point — 13.5
Round Lake Trail — 14.0
Skyline Trail #300 — con'd
Hunter Camp Way — 14.2
Sup. L. O. 100' West — 14.4
Sup. L. O. Point — 14.6
Round Meadow — 15.3
Hawk Mtn. Trail — 15.3
Hawk Mtn. (Turn left .6 mile)
Round Spring — 15.6
Twin Meadow Way — 15.9
Scorpion Mtn. Way — 16.8
Hunter Creek Way — 17.6
Cub Creek Trail — 17.8
Collawash Mountain — 18.1
On to Skyline Road approx. — 24.00
South Fork Trail #46 (title partially illegible)
Silver King Mtn. to Baty Butte in two sections from Bagby Gd Sta.
Section from Bagby G.S. to Baty Butte.
Bagby Guard Station — .00
Pansy Basin Trail Junct. — .05
Hot Spg. Fork of Collawash — .50
Junction Bagby Trail — .64
Sec line 22-23, T7S, R5E ¼ cor 660' North — .88
Nohorn Creek Way — 1.28
Nohorn Creek Crossing — 1.52
Small Creek & Bridge — 1.53
Sec line 15-22 T7S, R5E ¼ cor ? — 1.84
Small creek — 2.17
Small creek — 4.32
Small creek — 4.34
Small spring — 4.49
Small bridge, Dry Creek — 4.96
Medium size creek — 5.12
Meadow and sec. line crossing Meadow 300' x 50' — 5.47
Small Mdw. 100' Dia. & spring — 5.82
Open Rock slide, view of Baty Butte & Thunder Mtn. — 6.03
Trail to Lost Cr. Pasture — 6.12
Small creek — 6.32
Baty Butte Campground — 6.49
Junction East Mt. Trail — 6.57
South Fork Trail #46 — con'd (partially illegible)
Sign "Silver King 1 Mi." Hunter board, Small Creek — 5.70
Silver King Mtn. & Baty Butte - Silver King Way Junction — 6.76
On to Elk Lake Road — 11.21
Thunder Mtn. Trail #(illegible)
Bagby Trail to Thunder Mtn. LO and East Mtn. Trail
Bagby Trail & Dutch Cr. Shelter — .00
Small Creek and bridge — .61
Small creek — .94
Thunder Creek crossing — 1.11
Sec line 12-7 T7S, R5-6E ¼ 650' south — 1.91
Sec line 1-2 T7S, R5E — 4.09
Sec cor ? — 4.59
Thunder Mtn. LO Spring — 4.61
Small Meadow — 4.87
Open Burn — 5.50
Thunder Mtn. Way — 5.61
Thunder Mtn. L.O. — (illegible)
Sec line 2-35 T6-7S, R5E, sec corner 228' West — 6.79
East Mountain Trail — 6.90
Skookum Lake via East Mtn. Trail — 7.25
Welcome Lakes Trail #(illegible)
Elk Lake Trail to Bull-of-the-Woods LO
Elk Lake Trail — .00
Sec line 14-15 T8S, R6E cor 490' North — 1.30
Welcome Lakes Camp — 2.70
Welcome Lakes Ridge Way — 3.40
Dickey Cr. Way Junction — 4.30
Sec line 16-17, T8S, R6E ¼ cor 783' S — 4.40
Mother Lode Way Junction — 4.50
Bull-of-the-Woods LO Sta. — 5.20
Handwritten: 5.2 / 3.9 / 1.8 and 1.8 / .7
Welcome Lakes Ridge Way #(illegible)
Elk Lake Trail and Battle Creek Shelter to Welcome Lake Trail
Battle Creek Shelter — .00
Battle Creek — .10
Mother Lode Way — .50
Old Cabin — .70
Sec cor. 15-16-21-22, T8S, R6E — 2.40
Welcome Lakes Trail — 2.70
On to the Bull via Welcome Lake Trail — 4.50
Handwritten: Bull of the Woods L.O. to Battle Ax L.O. – 8.60
4.10 + 4.50 = 8.60