Treks and Adventures
Out for another hike doing that Hardy Ridge Loop at Beacon Rock State Park. Part of this was to see how far along the new growth and flowers were. The best of the flowers is still a month away. This was an 8.5 mile hike with 2275 ft. elevation gain with about 4.5 hours on the trail.
A damp day hike of Lower Salmon River trail with Lori and Jeanette. By the numbers: 6.5 miles, 370 Total Elevation Gain in 3.5 hours. Afterwards we went to Smoky Hearth for a late lunch.
This time out I started at the upper Salzman Rd. Trailhead. Many of the trails in this section I have not been on in a long time. I started off going down Firelane 5 to Leif Ericson to get to the Maple Trail. From the Maple trail I switched on to Salzman Rd. and followed it down to the Lower gate. I then took Firelane 4 up to where it connected with Maple Trail and followed it up to Firelane 3. I then connected with Wildwood to Salzman and then back to my car. I covered 8.5 miles with 1450 gain in a leisurely 3 1/4 hours. The hike started out dry but kept getting wetter and wetter. I got back to my car before the worse came in.
Lori, Jeanette and I did a hike at Lacamas Park. The hike was about 5 miles and 700 ft. gain. Afterward we went to lunch at a new place called JB’s Taphouse and Grill.
This was an easy social hike with the Cascade Prime Timers along the Herman Creek. We hiked the Herman Creek Trail in the Mark O. Hatfield Wilderness to Nick Eaton Falls and back. We were on the trail for 3 hours and did 5 miles with 900 ft. elevation gain.
