Treks and Adventures
A hike at chehalem Ridge Nature Park with Lori, Jeanette and Sylvia. Cloudy, cool but not rain. Afterwards we went to Murrayhill Taphouse for lunch. We hiked 6.5 miles and 850 ft. total elevation gain. Time on trail was 3 hr. and 10 min. with a moving average of 2.3 mph.
I did a hike with Lori, Jeanette and Sylvia on a sunny day to the Saddle on Hamilton Mt. We started at the Beacon Rock Equestrian Camp and took the Equestrian Trail up to and back from the Saddle. We did about 7.7 miles with 1500 gain in 41/2 hours. Afterward we went to Backwood Brewery for a late lunch.
I need to get some elevation gain workout in and we had some nice weather so I did a hike up to Indian Point High Point. This route combined Herman Creek Trail with Nick Eaton Trail, the Connector Trail and Gordon Creek Trail to make a lollypop loop. I had some Fall color and about dozen trees down across the trail.
By the numbers: 9.3 miles, a little over 3000 gain and on the trail for six and a quarter hour.
Another testing hike at Oxbow with Lori, Jeanette and Sylvia. We start out going from our low point to the parking lot at the top about a 600 ft. elevation gain. After that we did some trail around the park. We did about 5 miles and 650 ft. total elevation gain. Afterwards it was back to Ye Old Pub for lunch.
Lori and I did a very brief scouting hike at Spring Valley State Park of about 2 1/4 miles. We had planned on doing a longer hike but a man with a hunting rifle showed up and for safety only did a couple of short trail away from where this man went. We went to Backstop Bar & Grill for lunch afterwards.
