Cascade Lakes

Too much snow to hike all the way to Green Lakes

We headed up Cascade Lakes Highway past Mount Bachelor to the Green Lakes trailhead. I think this is our favorite day hike ever. It’s 4.5 miles in to the Green Lakes, following a nice rushing (actually, today it was roaring with snow melt) stream. […]

Metolius River

Today we did morning coffee in Sisters followed by a drive out to the Metolius River where we picked up 4 caches in a hike along the river.

Picnic on the green in Sisters

The Ochocos

Lava formations in the Ochoco Mountains

To do something different in the area, we headed east to Prineville and then on into the Ochoco Mountains north of highway 26. We explored several roads and did short hikes to the caches. Two of the caches were at old cinnabar mines with some interesting mining ruins around. […]