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I headed out with my new buddy Matt into the Tillamook State Forest to check out a route that goes from Brown’s Camp to Tillamook on trails and gravel roads.
Here’s Matt’s sweet 80 series Land Cruiser. It’s big enough for his whole family.
Heading up Firebreak Five.
Following Matt down Archer’s Firebreak.
Up at the end of Archers Ridge on the west end with a great view of the western part of the coast range.
On our last morning of our long birthday weekend, we checked out a few things around the general Camp Sherman area. We went up to the road closure on the McKenzie Pass Highway. The snow still is too high for the road to open.
Down a little lower where it’s already spring.
Up in one of the burn areas where a big fire swept through a number of years ago.
Looking north and west toward either Mount Jefferson or Three Finger Jack above the Metolius River close to the headwaters of the Metolius.
Down at Camp Sherman along the Metolius River.
Up at Shuttle Lake. There was a lot of wind coming across the lake.
Heading up into the clouds and the end of our long weekend in Central Oregon.
We drove around through the forest between Camp Sherman, Sisters, and the closed gate on the McKenzie Pass Highway looking for a decent spot to spend the night. Higher up, there was quite a bit of snow on the ground.
There were some really cool views like this one of Black Butte.
Storm clouds kept churning around us and we didn’t want to end up setting up a tent in the rain.
In the end we ended up back down at Cold Spring Campground for the evening. We found a nice spot that was fairly secluded to setup our stuff.
Heather making some pancakes the next morning.