Tag: Pacific Crest Trail
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Pacific Crest Trail – Wildflowers Galore
We put our hiking legs to the test Sunday morning and drove up to Mount Ashland where we picked up a portion of the Pacific Crest Trail. Southern Oregon has been experiencing hazy skies due to multiple fires burning in the area and in Northern California, but at the 6,300 foot elevation level the sky…
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Just a Short Walk
Twenty minutes into our hike, we stepped off the trail and settled into a lunch spot with a view of Mt. Ashland. Day 45 of isolation for us also happened to be Reg’s birthday, so we celebrated with a hike along a short section of the iconic Pacific Crest Trail. Our turnaround spot was the…
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Blooms On The Pacific Crest Trail
Friends Lan and Jeff suggested a morning hike along a portion of the Pacific Crest Trail that would lead us to Little Hyatt Lake reservoir. A couple thousand feet above Ashland we found spring blooming throughout a series of lush, green meadows. We reached the spillway below the reservoir and climbed to a ledge…
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Quit is not in this trekker’s vocabulary
What takes 13 pairs of shoes, 6,000 calories day, 252 days while losing 25 pounds? Check this out.
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Castle Crags: A granite monument from Jurassic times
We headed about 90 miles into California from Oregon for a training hike last weekend. As the challenge of an Alps trek next month nears, Castle Crags State Park gave us a chance to test our lungs and legs in the Shasta National Forest. The seven-mile walk took us up about 2,500…
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Ashland, Oregon: Farther afield
On our last day of a two-week stay in Ashland, Oregon, we drove to a pair of nearby attractions. Mount Ashland is a ski resort just 22 miles from town. It did not open this year due to a long drought affecting southern Oregon and California. On our way down the mountain, we got a…
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