One Night Wilderness: Portland. Douglas Lorain

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Название One Night Wilderness: Portland
Автор произведения Douglas Lorain
Жанр Книги о Путешествиях
Серия One Night Wilderness
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Lakes

       Southern Mount Rainier and the Goat Rocks

       4 Goat Lake and Gobblers Knob

       5 Indian Henrys Hunting Ground and Pyramid Park

       6 Indian Bar and Cowlitz Park

       7 Dumbbell and Sand Lakes Loop

       8 Cispus Point

       9 Packwood Lake and Coyote Ridge Loop

       10 Heart Lake

       11 Snowgrass Flat Loop

       Mount Saint Helens and Vicinity

       12 Dome Camp

       13 Goat Mountain and Green River Loop

       14 Mount Margaret Backcountry Lakes

       15 Lewis River Trail

       16 Quartz Creek

       17 Siouxon Creek

       Mount Adams and Indian Heaven

       18 Dark Meadow via Jumbo Peak

      19 Foggy Flat and Avalanche Valley

      20 High Camp and Killen Creek

      21 Horseshoe Meadow and Crystal Lake

      22 Sunrise Camp

      23 Lemei and Blue Lakes Loop

      24 Lake Wapiki

       Oregon Coast and Coast Range

      25 Tillamook Head

      26 Cape Falcon to Short Sand Beach

      27 Soapstone Lake

      28 North Fork Salmonberry River

       Columbia River Gorge

      29 Silver Star Mountain

      30 Soda Peaks Lake

      31 Dublin Lake and Tanner Butte

      32 Eagle Creek

      33 Herman Creek Trail

      34 North, Bear, and Warren Lakes

      35 Lower Deschutes River Canyon

       Mount Hood and Vicinity

      36 Cairn Basin and Elk Cove

      37 Ramona Falls and Yocum Ridge

      38 Burnt Lake

      39 Cast Lake and Zigzag Mountain Loop

      40 Paradise Park

      41 Elk Meadows Loop

      42 Salmon River Trail

      43 Veda Lake

      44 Twin Lakes Loop

      45 Boulder Lake

      46 Lookout Mountain and Oval Lake

      47 Badger Creek

       Clackamas River Country

       48 Memaloose Lake

       49 High Lake

      50 Shining Lake 170

       51 Shellrock and Serene Lakes Loop

      52 Peechuck Lookout

      53 Pansy and Twin Lakes

       54 Big Slide Lake

      55 Olallie Lake Scenic Area Loop

       Mount Jefferson and Vicinity

      56 Pyramid Lake

      57 Firecamp Lakes

      58 Jefferson Park

       59 Pamelia and Shale Lakes Loop

       60 Carl Lake Loop

      61 Duffy and Santiam Lakes

      62 Three Fingered Jack Loop

       63 Washington Ponds and George Lake

      64 Cache Creek

      Appendix A: More Short Backpacking Options

      Appendix B: Recommended Reading

      Appendix C: Conservation Organizations and Outdoor Clubs

      Appendix D: Land Agencies and Information Sources

      About the Author

      Summary of Featured Trips

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      Mount Hood from the ridge above Shining Lake (Trip 50)

      Introduction

      As a child, I often dreamed of embarking on great backcountry adventures designed to test my outdoor skills in a remote wilderness setting. I would spend hours poring over maps of those increasingly rare but always enticing areas without any roads, planning out huge 100-mile-plus hikes to explore the imagined wonders within those boundaries. Invariably my visions included plenty of wildlife, outstanding scenery, and opportunities for both quiet introspection and grand adventure. In my youthful imagination these trips would last for several days or even weeks, a time span that, I thought, would allow me to fully immerse myself in the solitude and grandeur of the wilderness. In later years, I was lucky enough to take many such long adventures and even to write guidebooks describing some of my favorite long hikes.

      I still take my share of long backpacking trips, but now that I am barreling headlong into middle age, nursing two long-suffering knees, and have a life that includes myriad other commitments, I am forced to put limits on my youthful ambitions. And I am not alone. Many of my fellow baby boomers no longer have the time, the energy, or the inclination to take the kinds of long backcountry adventures that they tackled in their youth. Instead, we seek out short mini-vacations (usually on weekends) to places where we can escape the rat race for a night or two, refresh our spirits, and then return to our busy lives with enough fond memories to sustain us until our next wilderness foray—always, so we fervently hope, not too far in the future.

      Most of us are parents now, determined to drag our children away from the pervasive influence of video games and inane television fiction into the outdoors where they can experience the beautiful “real” world of nature. We do not, however, want that introduction to be so grueling that it will cause tired young legs to reject backpacking for the rest of their lives. Once again, short one-night hikes are what we seek, the kinds of relatively easy trips that get the kids excited about the outdoors, but don’t cause too many sore muscles or painful blisters.

      This book is designed with you in mind. The bookstore shelves are already filled with numerous dayhiking guides. I wrote one or two, and a few of the others are pretty good. But these volumes do not address the unique needs of the backpacker. Hikers looking for overnight adventures are forced to wade through dozens of trips that are unsuitable for backpacking in order to find the few that meet their needs. In addition, these guidebooks rarely provide the kind of information that is most useful to backpackers, such as specifically where to find the best campsites, the location of the nearest water source, or what overnight permits are required. All of these concerns are addressed here.

      Since this book includes only the Portland area’s best short backpacking options, it is not a comprehensive guide to all of the region’s hundreds of overnight hiking possibilities. (See Appendix A, for a more thorough listing.) It does, however, present a wide selection of outings, including a range of scenery and difficulty levels, so hikers of all abilities and interests will find plenty of trips to meet their needs.

      Although this is more of a “where