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Bear Camp - Mt. Hood NF - July 19-22 2018
Posted: Thu May 10, 2018 2:42 pm
by hambone
We talked about it at Rho, anyone free for a Cascades Camp? I have a 4-day weekend...
Thinking someplace close in due to snow etc. Cot Creek?
Re: Memorial Day 2018 Clackamas Camp
Posted: Thu May 10, 2018 4:42 pm
by Westy78
Mmmaybeee.....
Re: Memorial Day 2018 Clackamas Camp
Posted: Thu May 10, 2018 8:36 pm
by Mike Boell
Have I been to cot creek? I don’t have 4 days off but think I’m free for the weekend. Map?
Re: Memorial Day 2018 Clackamas Camp
Posted: Sat May 12, 2018 12:48 pm
by tristessa
I can do Thursday/Friday/Saturday but can't get Sunday off so would have to head home Saturday before Sasquatch start's stumbling around.
Got the tranny back in the Bus at last, should hopefully be at the Lab monday.
Re: Memorial Day 2018 Clackamas Camp
Posted: Mon May 14, 2018 4:36 pm
by chachi
after all the fuel delivery and injection stuff i've replaced on the van, now i i'm dealing with the relatively straight forward problem of no spark. ah, but which wire?? replace the whole loom??
anyway, out of the camping game for still longer...
Re: Memorial Day 2018 Clackamas Camp
Posted: Tue May 15, 2018 1:16 pm
by tristessa
=(
Re: Memorial Day 2018 Clackamas Camp
Posted: Tue May 15, 2018 9:10 pm
by hambone
WOW the snow is almost gone!
https://mappingsupport.com/p/gmap4.php? ... eather.txt
I vote for Bear Camp up on Rho Ridge, the terminus of the Rho Creek Trail where we camp't last. It is freakn gorgeous up there.
224 to Ripplebrook
46
63 turn right
pass 70
about 3.5 miles LEFT on 6350
stay on 6350 for about 6 miles
at GRAHAM PASS - LEFT on 4670
Bear Camp will be on the right, about 1.5 miles
https://maps.google.com/maps?saddr=NF-4 ... r&t=m&z=14
The orange hubcap was stolen last trip, I will have to make another one.
Re: Memorial Day 2018 Clackamas Camp
Posted: Thu May 17, 2018 4:18 pm
by hambone
Yeah! The snow is almost gone. Hope to see you out there.
Re: Memorial Day 2018 Clackamas Camp
Posted: Sat May 19, 2018 7:28 am
by tristessa
Might make it. Might even get Mary out of the house.
I'm working on it, I'm working on it...
Re: Bear Camp - Mt. Hood NF - July 19-22 2018
Posted: Thu Jul 12, 2018 3:21 pm
by hambone
Next week! This camp was cancelled a few weeks ago but it's back on the front burner!
See above for directions etc. Hope you can make it.
http://www.nwhiker.com/MHNFHike104.html
Re: Bear Camp - Mt. Hood NF - July 19-22 2018
Posted: Mon Jul 16, 2018 1:32 pm
by hambone
Forecast!
Thursday Sunny, with a high near 70.
Thursday Night Mostly clear, with a low around 46.
Friday Sunny, with a high near 72.
Friday Night Partly cloudy, with a low around 46.
Saturday Mostly sunny, with a high near 77.
Saturday Night Partly cloudy, with a low around 50.
Sunday Sunny, with a high near 79.
Re: Bear Camp - Mt. Hood NF - July 19-22 2018
Posted: Mon Jul 16, 2018 5:44 pm
by tristessa
Looking good. Now to get my shit together...
Re: Bear Camp - Mt. Hood NF - July 19-22 2018
Posted: Wed Jul 18, 2018 3:29 pm
by hambone
Re: Rho Creek Trail (#)
8/13/07; 8:51:42 PM ¦ by Donovan
The trail with the weathered sign I believe heads into the meadow which appears to be grown in with lodgepole pine. It is hard to follow but I haven't worked very hard at it. I suspect it comes out at an elbow in the 4672 road to the southeast. The old guard station, collapsed, is down the trail to the left after crossing the top of Rho Creek traveling west. I have been told that there were two guard stations at this vicinity, one of which burned with a kerosene mishap. I think it was at a higher location based on the old photos, closer to Graham Pass. The meadow was large and open in 1937. All the timber to the northwest was burned off, hence the mossy cairns. There is yet another old sign post at a corner in the switchbacks above the Guard Station junction indicating a trail towards Jim Meadow. Very faint, but blazed.
PS Be careful around these parts during hunting season.
Re: Bear Camp - Mt. Hood NF - July 19-22 2018
Posted: Wed Jul 18, 2018 5:32 pm
by Sluggo
Can't wait! I'm leaving right after work! I'll be the douchebag in the black jetta.
Re: Bear Camp - Mt. Hood NF - July 19-22 2018
Posted: Wed Jul 18, 2018 8:35 pm
by hambone
Excited! See you all out there. Rob and Johnny are supposed to come out Saturday. Hal see you Thursday I'll be leaving Portland about 1-ish.
I also made new orange VW signs, watch for them...paper though, tired of the hubcaps getting stolen WTF. It's not yours, why steal it? I don't get it.
Directions again:
224 to Ripplebrook
46
63 turn right
pass 70
about 3.5 miles LEFT on 6350
stay on 6350 for about 6 miles
at GRAHAM PASS - LEFT on 4670
Bear Camp will be on the right, about 1.5 miles
https://maps.google.com/maps?saddr=NF-4 ... r&t=m&z=14