Mount Hood

Today we drove from Bend to The Dalles by way of Mount Hood. We went off on the old Barlow Road and hunted the cache at Pioneer Lady on the Barlow. This is the gravesite of an unknown pioneer woman who was traveling the last part of the Oregon Trail over some of the roughest […]

Spark’s Lake

One of our favorite hikes in the Bend area is the trail to Green Lakes at the base of South Sister. We hiked in about a mile until the snow began to get pretty rough to walk on and then decided we’d try something else.

That something else was a series of caches in […]

Tam McArthur, Not

Little Three Creeks Lake

Looking for a good long hike, we drove up to 3 Creeks Lake to check out hunting for Tam McArthur. After just a few steps up the trail and post-holing in over my knees in snow we decided that wasn’t a good idea. We hiked up to Little 3 […]