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Paradise Park Trail

I started the summer hiking season with the Paradise Park Trail and I wanted to see if my conditioning had improved by finishing the season with the same trail. I went further and higher this time and finished strong but diffidently tired. Some Fall color was out and all of the plants were dying back getting ready for the first snow of the season. There was still a hazy in the air that kept from getting clear view of the surroundings but Mt. Hood stood out very clear. I did 16.5 miles with a little over 3500 ft. elev. gain. I was on the trail for about 10 hours (spent an hour and half of that stopping to take pictures) and got to around 6200 ft. on the mountain.

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Dry Creak Trail Hike

A hike in the woods on Dry Creek Trail with Lori, Jeanette and Merlyn. This was a new trail for me. It was mostly a walk in the woods in a recovering forest. This area is on the edge of the Trapper Creek Wilderness. We did 8 1/4 miles with 600 ft. gain.

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Mt. Hood Meadows Hike

A late season hike at Mt. Hood Meadows with Lori and Marilyn. We put together several of the lower trails to make a loop. Fall was setting in with most flowers gone to seed and fall colors coming on. We did about 4 miles and 400 ft. gain. Afterwards we went to Smokey Hearth for lunch.

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Exploring the Ch’ak Ch’ak Trail

I found this trail on a map several months ago and got time to check it out. They are doing a formal opening of the Ch’ak Ch’ak Trail next month but is was finished in June. It is a bike and pedestrian in the Troutdale industrial area and is on top the dike along the Sandy River. I did an 8.25 mile out and back and had Chinook Landing Marine Park as my turn around spot.

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Palmateer Point Hike

This was hike with Lori and Merlyn to Palmateer Point and a great view of Mt. Hood. We had a blue bird day with mild temperature and no smoke. We had some fall color and more mushrooms.

This was a lollipop hike at 7.5 miles and 1100 elevation gain. We left out of the Barlow Snowpark on the PCT. We switch off on the the Palmateer Point trail to then use a connector trail to get to the Twin Lake Trail. The Twin Lake trail would take us back to the PCT and back to the car. After the hike we went to Smokey Hearth for for lunch.