Sorry to hear about your bad experience, but it has been my experience that the closer you are to Estacada (or civilization), the more yahoos you run ...

OK, I promised some photos, so here we go. First, a picture of the washout on the 7010 road – I think they have removed the culvert, as it looked lik...

I was finally able to get out and do some exploring today. I went to the Fish Lake trail and also the Round Lake trail. Snow conditions were better ...

Looking at the map of the Cottonwood Meadows trail, it looks like you have to pass about 4500' to get to those trails. It looks like the Shellro...

Did you see how the road was past the trailhead? I'm wondering if you can get to Cottonwood Meadows or Rimrock? The good news is that it seem...

I might be able to do that.....Sounds like fun!

Anything under 3000' is probably safe. That is a really weird statement for late June! Usually we can get to pretty much everything by now, wit...

How did you find that page? I tried by clicking around and finally stumbled across it from another link - you would think it would be a link on the l...

I saw a post on the portlandhikers site that said the road is blocked about 3/4 mile from hideaway lake by snow. A little before that was a downed tr...

Justin: Thanks for posting these conditions. I can't believe it is almost mid June and we still have snow at 3200'!!!! Even 4000' ...

I think Don's district map has all sorts of little hidden gems on it.....

More info from Don's exploration yesterday (I just tagged along to help do some brushing and see the trail). I brought my GPS, but since we spen...

I wish I could join you guys to explore a bit, however I will be at a horse farm in Beavercreek wtih the Scouts. I'm only there part of the day ...

Paul: Here is link to a map of the last trip Don and I did up switch creek. We ended up following the same path up and down, so I think this is a ...