[zephyr]

[Cyclopath]

Popped a spoke, immobilized it for the descent with Finding Nemo tape

[rossb]

Went up Dickerman yesterday. No snow at the waterfall crossing, but snow a little while later. I would not recommend the winter route. I went on the summer route and there was intermittent snow of various depths. Even though I've done the hike at least a dozen times in the snow, I liked having a GPS handy (measure twice, cut once). Some of the pathways up top are messy (they no longer "go") so following old tracks isn't always the best thing.

[Nancyann]

Green Mountain

Deep snow covers the trail in the basin, turned around here.

One of two bears we saw.

[Dick B]

To celebrate father's day, my wife and I took a short walk out in the Badlands east of Bend. We hoped to find an abundance of desert flowers, but only found a few scattered here and there. If you are ever in this area and have a couple of hours to spare, I would recommend a visit to the Badlands. Lots of old growth juniper and rock outcrops. The area is pretty much like it was when Stephen Meek led the

lost wagon train thru here in 1845.

[awilsondc]

Grindstone Mountain

Morning

Tweet

Pass

Traverse

Destination

Summit

Guardian

Sylvester

Ladies

Scramblers

Snowgrass

Cascade

Stream

Summer

[Dick B]

A friend & I did a hike yesterday, along the old Santiam Wagon Road, from the Fish Lake Remount Depot. Central Oregon is the land of disappearing lakes. Several fill with snow runoff in the spring and are mostly dry by late summer. Fish Lake as pictured is an example. The picture with water was yesterday and the other was sometime late summer when it becomes a very nice meadow.

[mike]

[olderthanIusedtobe]

[Cyclopath]

Mowich Lake

[RichP]

A little Idaho scenery. Lemonade Peak in the St Joe Divide above Calder.

Lookout remains

Next up, 5620.

Kellogg Peak area

5620

Lemonade from 5620

St Joe Mtns

[rubywrangler]

Hibox was a popular destination today, four other parties. Holy crap the trail is steep! Definitely anticipating some DOMS in the quads tomorrow from that descent. Jury is still out on the iphone 14 pro camera.

[jaysway]

[A. Hall]

Just thought I'd give an update on the iron cap loop in the ALW. I've been a lurker for awhile so I'd like to give back a little. Note: This was actually plan c because of weather so I had a day to do research. With more prep, this trip could probably be done more efficiently. This is also my first trip report so please bare with me. Made camp just under la bohn gap friday after work. Camped on dry land. No bugs here really. The trail was pretty cruiser up to here. Only ran into a group of back country skiers who might have done Hinman. Woke up early Saturday, tagged la bohn via the Gulley that puts you at la bohn ridge. Used crampons and ice axe for this. No snow on the ridge to the summit.

Gulley we used to get up to labohn ridge

Little Big Chief?

We made quick work getting up to the summit then packed up our camp and made our way to otter point. Otter point was a pleasant side trip. Still quite a bit of snow by tank lakes also. From here to iron cap gap was a mix of snow and dirt. Then after the gap, it was talus hopping until summiting iron cap mountain. Because we saw some threatening thunder clouds, we dropped off the ridge in a very steep Gulley to iron cap lake. We thought the snow would be continuous but there was bad moats so we had to go back and forth from snow to rock. Not that much fun and I wouldn't recommend it. From iron cap lake to chetwoot was straight forward snow and talus.

iron cap lake

chetwoot lake, tourmaline peak, and wild goat I think?

After getting to chetwoot lake, we made the ascent to atrium peak which gave us good views of camp robber and friends.

camp robber?

Then we found a place to camp above big heart lake hoping the wind on the ridge would get rid of the mosquitoes. It did not really. Ants kind of sucked there also. Woke up early the next morning to get camp robber. The route around big heart lake is okay until it requires you to bushwhack through alder or go through a creek bed. I'm sure later in the year the creek bed is dry and would be nice. I made some route finding errors on the way up once around the lake in the brush but once out of the brush the route was obvious. Just a talus jumping competition. On the way back we tagged peak 5560 which had no info about it really. It's just a steep heather slope to a wooded summit but has nice views just off the summit. We then made our way back to camp, packed up and made the hike out on pretty nice trail, all things considered. We only had one car so we were about to make the long walk back to the necklace valley trail but luckily hitched a ride back. Cool to finally see this area. Hope to come back one day and do the rest of the peaks I didn't have time for.

camp robber

malachite?

obligatory tree shot

[nuclear_eggset]