Little Applegate Trailhead – BOOTS on the TRAIL

Tunnel Ridge Loop (Southwest Oregon) 15-Apr-2022

2022-04-152022-04-16Posted in Hiking, Southern OregonTagged Applegate Valley Oregon, Bear Gulch Trailhead, BLM, Bureau of Land Management, Day Hiking, Hiking, Little Applegate Trailhead, Southern Oregon, Sterling Mine Ditch Trail, Tunnel Ridge Trail2 Comments

Well, last week gave us some of the weather we’d liked to have gotten spread out across January, February, and March – rain, snow, hail, sleet, high winds, etc. But, no, the skies waited and then slammed us with this stuff all at once. Recently brown hills are now green lower down and white higher up. The wildflowers are confused. But magic sky water is most welcome here however and whenever it arrives. More of this celestial moistness is expected in this evening and may then continue for another week. 😁

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Sterling Mine Ditch (Oregon) 26-Mar-2020

2020-03-262020-03-27Posted in Hiking, Southern OregonTagged Bear Gulch Trailhead, BLM, Bureau of Land Management, Day Hiking, Hiking, Little Applegate Trailhead, Siskiyou Upland Trails Association, Southern Oregon, Sterling Mine Ditch Trail, Tunnel Ridge Trail2 Comments

Our governor’s shelter-in-place order went into effect on Monday, with the now all too familiar (and painful) public closures, stay-at-home injunctions, and self-isolation directives. But, hiking, running, and biking are still encouraged PROVIDED you maintain a 6-foot (2 m) “alone cone” around yourself. Basically, just stay away from other people. And we’ve been good about that, as neither of us wants to give the Big V a shot at our decrepit immune systems. So, except for brief forays out for groceries, liquor, prescription refills, and the occasional take-out, we do not leave the house. Hiking is the one big exception. When doing so, we now have to think carefully about when and where to go – and be willing to abandon or revise a planned hike if trying to do it would compromise social distancing.

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