exploring around Mt. Hood 11/15/2009

[chazmataz]

I know this is kind of a lame trip compared to the previous ones on here but thought i would share it anyway. i was suppose to be a better expedition then it ended up being.
Went up exploring around Mt. Hood today.
Original plan was to take Still Creek Rd. from Rhododendron, Oregon to Trillium Lake but found the gate closed, they just closed it on tuesday the 10.
So we went to Barlow Pass Rd. went pass the snow park parking area about a mile in till we got stuck, got out of that and continued on Hwy 35 looking for places to explore. Bennet Pass was Closed off for the snow park. So went farther down towards Hood River found a few roads to explore a few miles down. Then desided to go back over Mt. Hood towards home and go up Lolo Pass to see how far we could make it, made it all the way up but desided not to go down the other side because it was getting late starting to get dark.
I wish we would have went and checked out Lolo Pass after we found Still Creek Rd. closed and headed down the otherside from the summit out towards Hood River and then back up over Mt.Hood, that would have been a much more full filling day of Exploring to me.
Had a full day of exploring around Mt. Hood, weather was ok mostly raining but no snow fall.

Still Creek Rd. Gate


Barlow Pass Rd. just before we got stuck turning around


Playing on a mound just off of Hwy 35



Northeast Side of Mt. Hood, if it wasn't covered in clouds


Summit of Lolo Pass


Looking down from Lolo Pass towards Sandy River and Hwy 26



Looking up at where the summit of Lolo Pass is in the clouds



an unimproved road we took just before heading home which eventually went to a deadend

[hutchman]

No pics....

[JDavis]

No pics....

But good descriptions of the pics feel like I'm looking at them right now.

~ Jon

[chazmataz]

ok. i don't know whats going on but when i posted this post the pictures we're up. when i go back in and edit it to repost the pictures then they reappear before i get a chance to repost them, then they disappear again. the same thing is happening on an australian subaru forum.
what the heck is going on?


edit: ok i went to repost them again and they showed back up again. so i hope there there for the next person that looks at this trip post.

[Steve]

This may help....

Posting Photos and Links

[Jerry]

Sounds like you had a good time. Nice country. And about the pictures, please keep in mind that some of our members (usually the ones who comment first) are more dependent on photos than words. Spell out the word H-A-M-B-U-R-G-E-R and nothing. But show them a picture of a juicy double meat with bacon and cheese, well, you'd better get out of the way! Thanks for posting and I, too, am looking forward to seeing the pics.

[nightfoam]

You may have actually done the right thing. I read a trip report elsewhere from somebody who went over Lolo last weekend. As soon as the got over and started dropping down the north side, there was ice under the snow and they ended up in the ditch and couldn't get back up and had to go clear down to Parkdale and back on the highways.

As for the pics, I'm wondering if the pictures on the forum can only be viewed by members? Just a thought.

You can use Photobucket or imageshack.us to host your pictures. Good Luck!

[chazmataz]

well my thought was that if i had gone over i would have gone north and went to parkdale anyway just to make a loop of it.

now i hadn't thought about the member thing as far as being able to veiw the pictures. i'll have to try and do something different when i get a chance then. thanks for the info.

[chazmataz]

Ok, if anyone is interested i replaced the pictures i tried to post from another forum with ones i put on a photo hosting website.
so they should be visible on here now.

enjoy, chaz