Treks and Adventures
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.
It was a long drive for a short hike. The attraction, four waterfalls in a 2 mile hike. I was out with Lori, Jeanette, and Marilyn for this expiratory hike. After the hike we went to Calapooia Brewing for lunch.
I got out to hike some trails in Forest Park that I had not been on in many years. Part of the exploring was to see where a couple of fire lanes came on at. By the numbers – 11 miles, 2450 ft. total elevation gain and on trail for 5 hours.
Lori, Jeanette, Marylyn and I had a short (2.2 mile) but very scenic hike in The Gorge at Tom McCall Preserve. We lucked out on the weather and managed to slip our hike in just before the rain came in. Afterwards we went went to Backwoods Brewing for lunch.
I had one last piece of the Burnt Bridge Creek Trail and I finish it today. The Freeway section of the trail had a very bad problem with homeless squatters in this area. The city of Vancouver had clear out the squatters on the rest of the trail so I thought it was safe to scout this last section. I found it mostly clear with no tents and just two folks with mental problems along the trail. I walked down to the West end of the trail and back and explored the Ellan Davis Trail. My walk was 7 miles with 670 ft. elevation gain in 3 hours.
