Week 23 - Eagle Creek Tr 501 /Logan -  Oregon City, Oregon - May 30 - June 5

This week I took Logan on his birthday backpacking trip.  We went into the Salmon Huckleberry Wilderness on Trail #501, The Eagle Creek Trail.  The trailhead is only about an hour away and the trail is a good one...clear...well defined....lots of little creeks flowing across it....but a bit boring because there are no views - only trees and the sound of the rushing river off in the distance.  The forest is very dense with lots of big trees.  Interestingly, it has almost exactly the same flora as in our own woods...except we have Big Leaf Maples.

We took the first little junction that headed down toward the river and found a cute little campsite suitable for one tent, and one tent only.

Views of the dense forest on the opposite side of the river.

On the way to the trailhead, we went by Barton Store to buy worms, but "the worm guy hadn't been in for a while."  We even went to the store at the junction to Sandy, but there were no worms there either.  In desperation we bought a package of hot dogs thinking we could cut the dogs into strips to resemble a juice worm......that didn't happen.  In fact there were no fish attracted to the hook and dog, but Logan had fun fishing anyway.

The last fishing photo of Logan with his dog.

Photos along the way:

A dinner party of bugs eating a dead slug.

Refuge from a lightening strike.

Unfamiliar flowers

Corydalis - Corydalis solida

Petasites frigidus -  Artic Sweet Coltsfoot

Oxalis which isn't unusual, but it was there.

Cool fungus

Classis\c bridge photo

Lounging in camp.

We walked to the four mile point and found a GREAT campsite suitable for multiple tents.  But....don't know if I'd want to come this far with little kids and I don't think it is magnificent enough for adults.

I tried out my Solo Stove.  Honestly - I wasn't really happy with it because it was hard to get started and to keep burning long enough to boil the water for our Mountain House dinner.  finding dry wood in an Oregon forest is unreasonable, and the sticks I did find of right caliper were too difficult to snap,  I'm probably going to return it due to dissatisfaction.

Heading home.

This was the weekend that Camille graduated from Alliance Charter Academy - on to BYU!

Jude's nineth family birthday celebration.

For the last seven weeks I have been helping Alice Bryan with her eye drops following cataract surgery.  The last drop was this week.   We celebrated with a selfie.