Category: Adventures
Backcountry
This most recent Friday we hiked part of the Silver Falls backcountry trails. The "frontcountry" of Silver Falls State Park is where the waterfalls are, thus the "Trail of Ten Falls". In the backcountry there are no waterfalls to speak of. We parked at the South Falls parking lot and started off towards the campground… Continue reading Backcountry
Wordless Wednesday
Circuit
(TLDR: I have backpacks. I have stuff sacks. I have now landed on the method of organization I prefer for backpacking.) I've had my ULA Circuit backpack for a number of years now. It's very comfortable, but I'm always trying to improve it. First, I removed the elastic cord from across the pocket there, because… Continue reading Circuit
Wordless Wednesday
Backpack
As I mentioned in this past post, Kangaroo and I are looking forward to a backpacking trip this summer. We have decided where we want to go, and have gotten our overnight wilderness permits for the areas we will be hiking. A few years ago we set out to do the section on the Oregon… Continue reading Backpack
TMI
(All photos by Kangaroo) Yesterday we hiked at the Peavy Arboretum, part of the Oregon State University research forest in Corvallis, Oregon. We have been there many times, but this time we took our partially-filled backpacking packs as we have been doing, to train for our backpacking trip this summer. At the trailhead where we… Continue reading TMI
14 Miles
A few weeks ago we planned to hike on the Banks-Vernonia State Trail that goes from…well, Banks to Vernonia. It is the first rail trail in Oregon, where they filled in an old railroad track and made a paved trail. The Banks-Vernonia Trail runs through some forests, a state park, and lots of farmland. We… Continue reading 14 Miles
Wordless Wednesday
A Trip
After watching a few videos on YouTube of people starting to thru-hike the Pacific Crest Trail, looking through some photos from our backpacking hike in southern Oregon on the PCT, and thinking about when we hiked, Kangaroo and I have decided we want to go on a backpacking trip this summer. Kangaroo and me in… Continue reading A Trip
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