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== Location == | == Location == | ||
| − | + | In the woods north of Klootchy Creek County Park. | |
== Participants == | == Participants == | ||
*[[user:Michael5000|Michael5000]] | *[[user:Michael5000|Michael5000]] | ||
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| − | + | Disappointed but undaunted after [[2023-08-19 45 -122]], I struck west from St Helens towards Vernonia, and promptly got caught in a poorly signed system of detours that kept me driving in pointless loops for a while without ever really making clear that the road to Vernonia wasn't available. | |
| − | + | Only mildly daunted, I dipped south to Scappoose, took the road from there to Vernonia, went south all the way to Manning like a noob instead of taking the Timber cutoff, and finally headed northwest (through Timber, eventually) on US 26 towards Klootchy Creek County Park, a few miles inland from the Coast. | |
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| + | The area is apparently popular with mountain biker types, and as I was unloading the bike a guy who was packing up his own bike announced "Hey, I don't want to be dramatic, but I just encountered a bear back there!" That was thought-provoking of course, but as his sighting had been a few miles away, the only real information it contained is that bears live in the forest, and I already knew that, so I continued. | ||
| − | + | The ride took me down a series of three clear but increasingly low-fi forest roads, on which I overshot the hashpoint by quite a ways and then circled back to it from the north, both to get as close as I could on roads and to avoid too steep a climb. At the end, it looked like I might be able to walk right up to it in a grassy meadow -- but nope, the final twenty feet or so were down a forested cliff. I scrambled down, scrambled back up, made it back to the park without any unfortunate ursine encounters, and set my sights on [[2023-08-19 44 -123]]. | |
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| + | File:2023-08-19 45 -123 a.jpg|This park used to feature a very large tree, but it perished in a storm some years ago | ||
| + | File:2023-08-19 45 -123 b.jpg|The second forest road branches off... | ||
| + | File:2023-08-19 45 -123 c.jpg|The third forest road | ||
| + | File:2023-08-19 45 -123 d.jpg|The hashpoint is just past the end of this meadow... and down a cliff | ||
| + | File:2023-08-19 45 -123 e.jpg|View north from the hashpoint | ||
| + | File:2023-08-19 45 -123 f.jpg|Me at the hashpoint, oblivious of forest debris | ||
| + | File:2023-08-19 45 -123 g.jpg|Voila | ||
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Revision as of 18:41, 20 August 2023
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Location
In the woods north of Klootchy Creek County Park.
Participants
Expedition
Disappointed but undaunted after 2023-08-19 45 -122, I struck west from St Helens towards Vernonia, and promptly got caught in a poorly signed system of detours that kept me driving in pointless loops for a while without ever really making clear that the road to Vernonia wasn't available.
Only mildly daunted, I dipped south to Scappoose, took the road from there to Vernonia, went south all the way to Manning like a noob instead of taking the Timber cutoff, and finally headed northwest (through Timber, eventually) on US 26 towards Klootchy Creek County Park, a few miles inland from the Coast.
The area is apparently popular with mountain biker types, and as I was unloading the bike a guy who was packing up his own bike announced "Hey, I don't want to be dramatic, but I just encountered a bear back there!" That was thought-provoking of course, but as his sighting had been a few miles away, the only real information it contained is that bears live in the forest, and I already knew that, so I continued.
The ride took me down a series of three clear but increasingly low-fi forest roads, on which I overshot the hashpoint by quite a ways and then circled back to it from the north, both to get as close as I could on roads and to avoid too steep a climb. At the end, it looked like I might be able to walk right up to it in a grassy meadow -- but nope, the final twenty feet or so were down a forested cliff. I scrambled down, scrambled back up, made it back to the park without any unfortunate ursine encounters, and set my sights on 2023-08-19 44 -123.
Photos
This park used to feature a very large tree, but it perished in a storm some years ago
The second forest road branches off...
The third forest road
The hashpoint is just past the end of this meadow... and down a cliff
View north from the hashpoint
Me at the hashpoint, oblivious of forest debris
Voila
