June 19-21 2008 NW Camp?

hambone · Post by **hambone** » Wed Jun 18, 2008 1:07 pm

Cool Jasan. I figured you were tired or tied up after your recent trip.
Yeah it starts at 4610 where Gypsie broke down last year, but turns off to the right at 4611 after about 6 miles. Go to that Googlemap link, it tells the story.
The trail heading down to the Roaring River is an old Indian trail, I'm excited to check it out. It also has an abandoned section I'm gonna try to find.
I'll be heading out early Thursday...I was gonna only stay a night but if someone is joining me out there I won't feel like such a weirdo and will stay longer. Hope you can make it, let me know. My daughter is coming in to PDX Saturday so I gotta split in the morning. I sure could use a couple days of beer etc. in the woods tho..

http://www.trailadvocate.org/trails/517

turk · Post by **turk** » Wed Jun 18, 2008 1:43 pm

Hey hammie, remember when we went bushwacking down to the Roaring River. I still beat you back up out of the canyon by like 10 minutes even though you shouted "You're going the WRONG WAY!".

Have fun.

hambone · Post by **hambone** » Thu Jun 19, 2008 9:09 am

Ok, I'm outa here. Hope to see someone up there!

spiffy · Post by **spiffy** » Thu Jun 19, 2008 9:19 am

hambone wrote:Ok, I'm outa here. Hope to see someone up there!

Have fun Hammie!!! You know I would be there if I could.

turk · Post by **turk** » Thu Jun 19, 2008 5:58 pm

Post some pics hambone. I still havn't watched the cd you made about the Abbot Road. That is a cool road.

Westy78 · Post by **Westy78** » Sat Jun 21, 2008 1:15 pm

A few shots....more later.

spiffy · Post by **spiffy** » Sat Jun 21, 2008 7:14 pm

Awesome! Looks like that was a nice little spot. Wish I could have made it, I spent the day starting on the list to get the house ready for sale....burf....lots more work.

deschutestrout · Post by **deschutestrout** » Sat Jun 21, 2008 9:59 pm

Nah, all those trees and nature and stuff. Poo. Dirt road too. Miff.

I'm slammed again for a month or so...a couple days off here and there to spend with the fam and hopefully take my boys bus camping for a night. We'll catch ya'll come fall(ish). Ham, Jasan, missed ya at the RendezVw!

hambone · Post by **hambone** » Sun Jun 22, 2008 8:30 am

Great pics! Yeeehaw that was a crazy road..a couple of questionable spots, dips into mud pits etc. Tons of solitude tho. Worked on an obsure historic trail for 2 days, lots of work but what a beautiful place. The whole area was like a marshy meadow.
At one point on Friday nite when I was camping alone, I was starting to think about cougars when I heard a rustlin in the bushes. Then a nearly tame doe walks out in front of me, and hangs out grazing for a 1/2 hour or so. Maybe nature's way of telling me to mellow out?
I'll post a couple pics later.
Mark ya gotta try to swing a couple days off this summer. Crooked River maybe? Let me know if ya can.

spiffy · Post by **spiffy** » Sun Jun 22, 2008 8:58 am

Was the road as bad as that one we went up on by Canyon Creek?

hambone · Post by **hambone** » Sun Jun 22, 2008 10:34 am

Just as narrow, but worse...1st gear for about 4 miles. Part of my rear side reflector got torn off, nothing more fun than trying to find a 1-year part......
The camp spot wasn't too spectacular, strange weird abandoned roads with huge puddles full of newts. But the trails and Roaring River wilderness are really beautiful and remote. Huxley Lake isn't too far either, up another trail.

spiffy · Post by **spiffy** » Sun Jun 22, 2008 5:48 pm

Oops!! Hopefully you can find a new reflector, way to go there turbo

Looks like some really cool trails. Hopefully the upcoming move allows us to get out at least one more time, this summer may be chewed up with getting all our s**t 3/4 of the way across the state. Who knows though, they are paying for the move so hopefully that cuts down on our work a bunch.......*I hope*

Westy78 · Post by **Westy78** » Sun Jun 22, 2008 6:02 pm

Damn, you really did some big work on that trail. Could hardly tell it was there before.

hambone · Post by **hambone** » Sun Jun 22, 2008 9:59 pm

It was actually dropped way down to the right. The orignal tread was all grown over and people were walking away from the brush for many years. Lots of roots in that crap too! Ugh I still hurt. Forests and mountains do not appreciate straight lines.

Hope you can make at least one more trip. I want to do the Hambone Springs camp again this year, maybe the end of July. I've got some time off, would be a good place to spend a few days.

Gypsie · Post by **Gypsie** » Mon Jun 23, 2008 12:05 pm

spiffy wrote:Hopefully the upcoming move allows us to get out at least one more time, this summer may be chewed up with getting all our s**t 3/4 of the way across the state. Who knows though, they are paying for the move so hopefully that cuts down on our work a bunch.......*I hope*

I guess I missed that this deal got inked. Congrats.

Looking over that way ourselves.

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June 19-21 2008 NW Camp?