Forest Hosts Tenth Annual Pick Up the Pinchot, Public Lands Day Events
VANCOUVER, WA – Join us this fall for the Gifford Pinchot National Forest’s tenth Annual Pick Up the Pinchot (P.U.P.) clean-up events.
There are three P.U.P. events scheduled for Saturday, September 27. These events are part of National Public Lands Day events scheduled across the country in late September.
“On National Public Lands Day, we all have a chance to contribute to the well being of our public lands for this and future generations of Americans,” said Al Matecko, Acting Forest Supervisor. “Last year, more than 150 people participated in PUP events, and worked on projects to remove trash and help restore the East Fork of the Lewis River. We hope that people will continue to join us and volunteers around southwest Washington this year.” Read more…
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Burley Mountain to Mt St Helens Tour 10.13.07
Each time I venture to the Gifford Pinchot National Forest in the South Cascades of Washington state, I am simply amazed at the beauty of the country. In this region, not only are you are surrounded by four major peaks of the Cascade Mountains (Mt. Rainier, Mt. St. Helens, Mt. Adams, and Mt. Hood), there is an extensive variety of terrain ranging from deep valleys and canyons to exposed buttes and cliffs, alpine meadows to old growth forests, and of course, the Mt. St. Helens blast zone. I could easily spend days or even weeks just exploring the region.
With that in mind, I decided to host a Backroad Drivers Northwest tour in the area just south of Randle, Washington. This region is an area which I am fairly familiar with having spent a lot of time hunting, camping and exploring with my father while growing up. The tour would follow one of my favorite routes in the area, Forest Road 77 from the Burley Mountain Lookout along the ridge past Pinto Rock and Mosquito Meadows. From Mosquito Meadows, we would would take FS 99 to the Windy Ridge Viewpoint at Mt. St. Helens and follow FS 26 back to Randle.
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Categories: Adventures Tags: adventure, burley mountain, buttes, camping, canyons, cascade mountains, cascades, cispus, cowlitz, fishing, forest, gifford pinchot, glenoma, goat rocks, hunting, iron creek, jeep, lake scanewa, lookout, meadows, mosquito meadows, mt adams, mt hood, mt rainier, mt st helens, national forest, norway pass, outdoors, pinto rock, quartz creek, randle, spirit lake, tour, travel, trips, washington, windy ridge, woods creek
Trip Report: Washington Cascades Overland Tour 2007 – Day Two (08.11.07)
Daily Goal: To Drive from Babyshoe Pass (on FS-23 near Mt. Adams) to Cle Elum, Washington (I-90) via Bethel Ridge and Manastash Ridge.
Categories: Adventures Tags: 4wd, 4x4, 80-series, adventure, arb, babyshoe pass, barber springs, bethel ridge, blewett pass, buck meadow, camp, camping, carson, cascade mountains, cascades, cle elum, expedition, fj80, forest, four wheel drive, gifford pinchot, hugo lake, jim sprick, land cruiser, landcruiser, liberty, manastash, mt adams, mt hood, mt rainier, naches, national forest, nile, oak creek, overland, packwood, park, Photos, quartz mountain, rattlesnake creek, rimrock lake, takhlakh lake, taneum creek, teanaway, tillman creek, tour, toyota, trip, washington, washington cascades, wenatchee, white pass, wildlife
Photos: Washington Cascade Mountains Overland Tour 2007 – Day Two
The photos were taken between Mt. Adams, Washington and the second day's campsite near Blewett Pass (near Cle Elum, WA).
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Trip Report: Washington Cascades Overland Tour 2007 – Day One (08.10.07)
Today was going to be a very long day. Not only would I be attempting to reach my destination in Packwood, I would also have to include the drive from my home in the middle of Washington state to the southern border near Oregon to start the tour of the Washington Cascade Mountains. My goal was to complete the drive from the Oregon border to the British Columbia in four days.
Categories: Adventures Tags: adventure, babyshoe pass, babyshoe ridge, bear creek, big lava bed, camp, campground, camping, carson, cascade mountains, cascades, columbia river, dualsport, expedition, fishing, forest, forlorn lakes, gifford pinchot, goose lake, huckleberries, indian heaven, lake, lewis river, lookout, meadows, motorcycle, mt adams, mt hood, national forest, oregon, overland, packwood, red mountain, routes, sawtooth berry fields, south prairie, steamboat lake, suv, tour, triangle pass, trip, twin buttes, twin falls, washington, washington cascades, wilderness, wind river
Washington Cascades Overland Tour 2007: Intro
For the past year, I've had the desire to map out and drive an overland route through the Cascade Mountains of Washington state from the Columbia River near Oregon all the way to northern border with British Columbia.
Categories: Adventures Tags: 4wd, 4x4, 80-series, adventure, border, british columbia, carson, cascade mountains, cascades, chelan, chopaka, cle elum, columbia river, expedition, fj80, forest, four wheel drive, jeep, land cruiser, landcruiser, mt adams, oregon, overland, packwood, road, tour, toyota, washington, washington cascades, wrangler, yj
Photos: Washington Cascade Mountains Overland Tour 2007 – Day One
I just uploaded photos from day one (08.10.07) of my cross state overland expedition Cascade Mountains of Washington state. These photos were taken between Carson, Washington and the first day's campsite near Mt. Adams.
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