Southern Oregon Happy Trails – BOOTS on the TRAIL

Da-Ku-Be-Te-De Trail (Applegate Lake) 16-Jan-2017

Da-Ku-Be-Te-De Trail Applegate Lake Oregon

Since we moved to the State of Jefferson, the majority of our hikes have been either solo efforts or just the two of us. In an effort to be more social, we signed up with Southern Oregon Happy Trails (SOHT), our local meet-up group focused on hiking. We had planned to refresh our social skills with them on a hike earlier this month, only to have it canceled by the Great Storm. So, we needed to try again and that opportunity came when Joe – one of the meet-up’s assistant organizers – offered an easy hike on the Da-Ku-Be-Te-De Trail (USFS #940), which traverses the western shore of Applegate Lake between the Swayne Viewpoint Trailhead and Watkins Campground. Unfortunately, when the Library got two big donations over the holiday weekend, the LovedOne had to skip this hike to enhance her social skills by volunteering to sort books and sniff the cellulose.

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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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Grayback Mountain (Siskiyou Mountains) 18-Aug-2016

2016-08-192022-01-29Posted in Hiking, Southern OregonTagged Applegate Valley Oregon, Day Hiking, Grayback Mountain, Hiking, Krause Cabin, O'Brien Creek Trail, Oregon, Siskiyou Crest, Siskiyou-Boundary Trail, Southern Oregon Happy Trails

Southern Oregon Happy Trails (details) is the meet-up group for hikers in our area. We learned of it shortly after relocating here but, being unfamiliar with the meet-up group concept, thought we’d watch and wait until we’d gained some of our own experience with the trails in this area. Time passed. Then this week we finally decided it was time to give “meet-up” a try when a hike to the summit of Grayback Mountain was posted.

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