A Muddy and Snowy Day on the Barlow Trail

I spent some time mapping the Barlow Trail for Trails Off-Road and got to play around in the mud and snow with my Toyota 4runner.

Heading on through the route where wagon trains once rolled.

Muddy truck means fun truck.

Rich met up with me for the second half of the trail.  We hit snow pretty quick but it didn’t get thick until later.

This old bridge is getting pretty long in the tooth.  I wouldn’t be too surprised if it is condemned in the next year or two.

Beautiful in the snow.

The road won’t be open too much longer this year.  Snow is falling thick and heavy up on top.

Our First Time on Bennett Pass and Barlow Trail

Heather and I went up with Matt and his wife and family to go run Bennett Pass and the Barlow Trail on the east side of Mount Hood down to Tygh Valley.

There are a lot of huge views of Mount Hood on Bennett Pass Trail.  We love these views and can’t wait to go back again soon.

Driving along on the trail with Mount Hood in the background.

Our little 4runner does great on this trail.

Behind the truck is Mount Jefferson, Three Finger Jack, The Three Sisters, and maybe Diamond Peak is even visible.

Our truck looks awesome with the top down.

This road is so much fun!

This little log was very naughty to our truck.

 


This particular nub caused a double sidewall puncture on one of our tires.

 

 

The puncture was much too severe to trail repair.

Luckily Matt and I put the spare on in short order onto the truck and away we went!

Going through the little rocky notch.

 

There’s that big mountain through the window!

On the dry side of the mountains, we went past this neat old abandoned house.

This old seed planter was rusting away in the weeds by the house.

After we passed by the house, the trail got much dustier and we stopped taking pictures.  We ended up looping back up Barlow Trail and back to Government Camp to get over to the Willamette Valley once more.