No-See-Em Camp – BOOTS on the TRAIL

Upper Rogue River Trail (River Bridge to North Fork Dam) 27-Sep-2016

The Upper Rogue River Trail (USFS #1034) is a National Recreation Trail that closely follows the Rogue River for about 47 miles from its headwaters at Boundary Springs in the northwest corner of Crater Lake National Park to the North Fork Dam Recreation Area outside Prospect, Oregon. The trail can be day hiked in sections between readily accessible trailheads. Today we finished the last section – from River Bridge Campground to the North Fork Dam Recreation Area – of our effort to hike the entire length of the #1034, section by section. As with a previous section, we again went from south to north to accommodate a hike & bike approach.

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Cook and Green Trail (Siskiyou Mountains) 14-Sep-2016

2016-09-152022-01-29Posted in Hiking, Northern CaliforniaTagged Cook and Green Pass, Cook and Green Trail (#959), Day Hiking, Hiking, No-See-Em Camp, Northern California, Pacific Crest Trail (PCT), PCT, Red Buttes Wilderness, Siskiyou Crest, Southern Oregon Happy Trails

Since we moved to the State of Jefferson, all of our hikes have been either solo efforts or just the two of us. In an effort to be more social, we finally (after lurking their site for a year) signed up with Southern Oregon Happy Trails (SOHT), our local meet-up group focused on hiking. My first effort at one of their hikes – a climb of Greyback Mountain (post) – went well, except for the fact that only the trip organizer and I were on it (the LovedOne having determined it was too hot to hike that day). So, we needed to try again and that opportunity came when the organizer of the Grayback Mountain hike – Joe – offered a moderate hike on the Cook and Green Trail (USFS #959).

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