Oregon Hikers

... up too early this morning. I decided to try Zig Zag mtn from the South Burnt Lake TH, hoping that the access road wouldn't be too bad. I've hiked the Burnt Lake Trail to ...

... with about 1 mile to go. We went left (downhill) and intersected the Burnt Lake Trail 1/2 mile later. We continued straight, up to the summit. Conditions: Beautiful, ...

... seldom trod on by any hikers. The trail between the Paradise Park and Burnt Lake trails was very overgrown with bear grass and huckleberry bushes, although sadly, very ...

... little jealous that so many people actually cared.) We used the Thomas Lake Trailhead and hiked that trail as far as Rock Lake, noting the abundance ... due east from Rock Lake and soon reached the old route of the PCT. The burnt scalp of East Crater loomed ahead, and we thrashed a short distance ...

... parted and the views were better, if not great. We couldn't see all the way to Mt. Jefferson (boo), but I was ok with the trade off of not getting burnt from too much sun, and no smoke. We didn't see anyone else on the trail, and the log book in the lookout cabin said the last visitors were there ...

... way less people than the north side coming from Two Pan TH and Wallowa Lake. The SE side gets even fewer. Looking at that area on maps, several ... they were fleeing the fire, as I read that people had to be evacuated. Burnt tubs of gear: https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/pw/AIL4fc-mV2DOfQcufI3BwPlvm6k_l8oaNp9VQgGhVGr3A6q3BHB9QJCBrKSF3HeSKPJFVWpSWlK1ZtbP4ldFA2Ang9Q_G4tsC4NTFKpK-ZyLpCurRkfcpGM=w2400 ...

... a dozen times. The good news is that once on the PCT and headed over to Burnt Rock and the Crystal Lake bootpath, they were gone. I think the breeze helped. Oct. 15th, 2020: https://donnelsen.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/IMG_0807B_1184-scaled.jpg ...

... South, Riley Camp Trail, and the PCT. We took the side trip to Crystal Lake off of the PCT. The use path is clear the full way to the lake. We continued ... a good way to get to the higher areas. I've hiked that route as far as Burnt Rock and north on the PCT but not higher. Looks like lots of ...

HI,

I love this loop. Did it on 3rd June and cleared a bunch of small/medium windfall from the Cast Creek trail. View of Cast Lake with plenty of snow still on it that day from the Zigzag trail, bound for Horseshoe.


Cheers,

Rob

We did a loop covering the Cast Creek Trail, Zigzag Mountain Trail, Burnt Lake Trail, Devil's Tie Trail, back to Zig Zag Mountain Trail, and down the Horseshoe Ridge ...