Time to hike the foothills to catch spring as it moves up the mountain … keep driving to minimum but hiking experience to maximum: Goodman Creek to Eagles’ Rest. This was the first of a planned 3-day sequential hiking sequence to test conditioning for longer adventures after day hiking all winter. After a 30 min…
To bank carbon karma, I stayed local hiking Mt. Pisgah. Starting from North TH before sunrise, 9 different birds were singing in the parking lot. My car was the only one … Even before rounding the hill from the TH on Tr#3, 3 deer sprinted up the hill from the valley floor. Later on the…
After hiking a couple of very fast hours on the Baldy side of Ridgeline with my nephew, I headed over to Pisgah for a short afternoon ramble as all the rain clouds disappeared. North TH parking lot was surprisingly empty after the morning drizzle. Humans were infrequent on the trails but half had dogs and…
I needed a long hike with a bit of elevation work but didn’t want too drive far with grey, will-eventually-rain skies. The night before I thought Ridgeline a good idea, but in the morning I decided fewer humans and more wildlife a better plan: Pisgah! Mine was first car in North TH lot … a…
Two of us started at Hardesty TH intending to hike up Goodman Creek Trail to Eagle’s Rest and back down. A good plan until we reached the larger creek crossing about 2 miles from TH. The creek was flowing much higher than expected from the recent snow. While rock-hopping across was feasible it required using…
Yesterday’s hike decision rubric came down to a) where will it rain least; b) where can miles with options be hiked, and c) where will wildlife, trees and / or wildflowers be? … Rain crossed off the cascade foothills and with threatened snow above 3500 ft – *pipe-dream*? With no intention of driving far to…
With a small group of 3 hikers, we headed out to do a warm grey day wildflower tour of Mt. Pisgah, leaving the North TH around 11:30 and returning about 2:00pm. Both parking lots were >3/4 full, but the trails didn’t feel crowded. We took Tr #3 to the Quary Road junction and then the…
A grey, cloudy but warm Sunday … perfect for flowers All photos within blocks of my front door … Spring is surely coming!
Walking around town on a sunny war mid-50s February day early hints of spring were everywhere. Oregon snowpack is ~30% of average and thankfully a big rain storm is heading this way next week, but things still seem early this year. (Remember opening an image shows better resolution – the flowers especially) Near home flowers…
It’s January 12 … some Rhodies working to bloom and daffodils are coming up in the yard – not just sprouts, but blooms Roses are blooming though they look a bit tired / warn out. And a real surprise … while the bugs have had a feast, it’s still blooming or blooming early btw, all…
