LaCamas Creek 06/29/2011

I took Tri-Met and C-TRAN buses over to Camas, WA to go hiking. LaCamas Creek watershed is a 67 square miles of forest, farm, residential and industrial land.

Here's Lower Falls from below. There are plenty of light trails or game trails that go down to the water.

There were lots of crawdads close to the water. I picked this one up.

Here is Pothole Falls

I did some off trail work to get down to the water at fells and hiked up until I came to the Round Lake dam. The Lacamas Lake dams go back to the 1880's, the dam helps to run the sawmill.





Here is Round Lake, there a trail that goes around Round Lake and goes to the Camas Lily Fields.

To the North of Round Lake is LaCamas Lake, both of the Lakes hold LaCamas Creek. To the west of LaCamas Lake is the Heritage Trial which runs over 3 miles.

Here is a rabbit I saw on the Heritage Trial.

Here is a Tiger Lily.

Larch Mountain 06/25/2011

Rex led a hike up Larch Mountain, and we got great weather!
We started out from Multnomah Falls about 8:45 a.m.



Here is me at the top, I was in a t-shirt and shorts all day.



A good view of Mount Hood. Mt. Rainer and Mt. Adams were a little cloudy at the peaks.



Here is Silver Star Mountain. I hope to climb that next month.



Multonamah Falls on the way down at 3:30 p.m.

Angels Rest 06/24/22011

Karen took me up to Angels Rest today. It was a beautiful day, I think summer is finally here.



The flowers were out on this lovely patch near the top. Columbines, iris, daises, and more.

Mt. Hood - 06/09/2011

Bruce took a group of us up to Mt. Hood on Thursday. We left Portland at 9 PM on Wednesday to start climbing between 11 PM and midnight.



I did not summit the mountain. I had some problems with my crampons after I got over the hogsback and I did not have confidence that they would come loose on the way up to the summit where there would not be a place to fix them.



Some of these photos are taken from my team and are copyrighted.