Red Cone Oregon – BOOTS on the TRAIL

Red Cone (Crater Lake National Park) 26-Oct-2020

2020-10-262021-07-28Posted in Hiking, Southern Oregon, U.S. National Parks & MonumentsTagged Bald Crater Oregon, Crater Lake National Park, Day Hiking, Hiking, Pacific Crest Trail (PCT), PCT, Red Cone Oregon, Southern Oregon6 Comments

Rim Drive (and the North Entrance) in Crater Lake National Park close for the season if it snows enough or when November 1^st rolls around. There hasn’t been any meaningful snow yet (or much rain for that matter). Regardless, the clock is still ticking and we wanted to get in one more hike in the park’s interior before the Rim closes. For that we picked a climb of Red Cone, another of the 40 cinder cones and shield volcanoes in the vicinity of the Crater Lake caldera. The Cone rises just northwest of the lake on the southern edge of the Pumice Desert. It’s easily reached via a ramble on the Pacific Crest Trail (PCT) and a bit of steep cross-country up one of its sides (we went with the southeast side).

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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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