Mount Thielsen – BOOTS on the TRAIL

Red Cone (Mt. Thielsen Wilderness) 13-Aug-2019

2019-08-132022-01-31Posted in Hiking, Oregon Wilderness Areas, Southern OregonTagged Beckie's Cafe Oregon, Crater Lake National Park, Day Hiking, Hiking, Howlock Mountain, Mount Thielsen, Mount Thielsen Wilderness, Pacific Crest Trail (PCT), PCT, Red Cone Oregon, Southern Oregon, Tipsoo Peak Oregon2 Comments

Red Cone is a small volcanic protuberance on the east side of the Mount Thielsen Wilderness (not to be confused with the Red Cone in nearby Crater Lake National Park). The cone in the wilderness is readily visible from Tipsoo Peak and I’ve long harbored a desire to see if it could be climbed. Leaving The LovedOne at the library talking 🙄 taxes, I went to the wilderness alone 😥 to explore Red Cone.

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Timber Crater (Crater Lake National Park) 06-Jul-2018

2018-07-052022-01-30Posted in Hiking, Southern Oregon, U.S. National Parks & MonumentsTagged Beckie's Cafe Oregon, Crater Lake National Park, Mount Bailey, Mount Thielsen, Oregon, Pacific Crest Trail (PCT), PCT, Pumice Desert Oregon, Southern Oregon, Timber Crater Oregon

Timber Crater Crater Lake National Park Oregon

Crater Lake National Park is, for most visitors, all about the lake and only the lake. Which is understandable, given that the park’s roads take them right to this utterly stunning natural feature. Even popular hikes in the park, like Garfield Peak or Mount Scott, are mostly about getting a better view of the lake. But what about some of the park’s other natural features, like its cinder cones or bogs or desert? Granted, We went to see Crater Lake! sounds a lot better during show-and-tell than We went to see a bog! But, still, some of these underdog features deserve a little recognition. With that it mind, I (while The LovedOne caught up on her library duties) set out to summit Timber Crater, a well preserved shield volcano in the park’s largely untracked northeast quadrant.

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Climbing Mount Thielsen (August 1998)

2018-05-222022-01-30Posted in Hiking, Oregon Wilderness AreasTagged Central Oregon, Day Hiking, Hiking, Mount Thielsen, Mount Thielsen Wilderness, Mountaineering, Oregon

Up until 2008, our adventures were retained only as memories and on 35mm slides. While our memories may have faded (just a bit), the slides haven’t – and we have a lot of them. So we’re digitizing a select few to bring some of our past adventures into the 21^st Century. The photos below are some of those old slides.

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Tipsoo Peak on Snow (Mt. Thielsen Wilderness) 06-Jul-2017

2017-07-062022-01-30Posted in Hiking, Oregon Wilderness Areas, Southern OregonTagged Beckie's Cafe Oregon, Crater Lake National Park, Day Hiking, Diamond Lake, Hiking, Mount Bailey, Mount Thielsen, Mount Thielsen Wilderness, Oregon, Pacific Crest Trail (PCT), PCT, Southern Oregon, Tipsoo Peak Oregon, Union Creek2 Comments

Tipsoo Peak Mount Thielsen Wilderness Oregon

Tipsoo Peak (8,034) is one of the few 8000-foot Cascade volcanos (it ties for #38 in terms of elevation) with a well-graded trail to its summit. Located in Oregon’s Mount Thielsen Wilderness, it is an easy hike to spectacular 360º views, including Howlock Mountain, Mount Thielsen, Mount Bailey, Diamond Peak, the Three Sisters, and Diamond, Miller, and Maidu Lakes. Directly south of its summit is the highest point (7,560 feet) on the Pacific Crest Trail (PCT) in Oregon and Washington. We decided to do a quick hike to its summit to: (a) take in the views on what was to be a full bluebird day, (b) check-out snow levels along the PCT, and (c) generate an excuse to stop at Beckie’s Cafe in Union Creek for some of their delicious pie (because hiking is hard and you need to stay fueled!).

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Falling Waters (March 2017)

2017-03-302022-01-29Posted in MontageTagged Columbia River Gorge NSA, Crater Lake National Park, Fairy Falls Oregon, Gifford Pinchot NF, Hiking, Mount Thielsen, Mount Thielsen Wilderness, Oregon, Ramona Falls Oregon, Silver Falls State Park Oregon, Siouxon Creek, Stuart Falls Oregon6 Comments

“Once we have tasted far streams, touched the gold, found some limit beyond the waterfall, a season changes and we come back changed but safe, quiet, grateful.” ~ William Stafford

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