All visitors and Trails Club members are encouraged to enjoy the great Northwest outdoors by selecting a hike, bike ride or other event from this calendar. Gentle Reminders provides explanation of hike difficulty and hike guideline. Detail description of common meeting is available at Meeting Places.

Index:

Date	Day	Event Description
Week 1
2-4	Fri-Sun	Nesika Food Drying
4	Sun	Hagg Lake Loop Bike Class B
4	Sun	Indian Point Hike - Class B
Week 2
7	Wed	Morning hike - Class A/B
7	Wed	Evening hike - Class B
8	Thu	Bike and Dine - Sellwood Riverfront Park to Mississippi - Class A
10-11	Sat-Sun
Week 3
13	Tue	Board Meeting - 7PM, Mazama MC
14	Wed	Morning hike - Class A/B
14	Wed	Evening hike - Class B
15	Thu	Blazer Deadline
15	Thu	Adventure and Travel - Trails Club Bicycle Events
16	Fri	McMinnville – Wine Country Bike Loop – Class B
17	Sat	Three Spires Hike - Class A/B
17	Sat	Oneonta and Horsetail falls loop - Class A
17-18	Sat-Sun	Nesika Work Trip
18	Sun	Portland Loop Bike Ride—Class B
Week 4
21	Wed	Morning hike - Class A/B
21	Wed	Evening hike - Class B
24	Sat	Mosier Twin Tunnel Bike rides, class A, B or C
24-25	Sat-Sun
Week 5
28	Wed	Morning hike - Class A/B
28	Wed	Evening hike - Class B
31 - June 1	Sat-Sun

Events

Week-1

May 2-4 (Fri-Sun) Nesika Food Drying

Come to Nesika for 3 days of food drying for backpacks. Bring a food dehydrator if you own one and your favorite food to dry and trade. We will bring some extra food dryers. We will prepare up to one food dryer per person. Be prepared to trade off your favorite dried food recipes. Learn the do's and dont's of food drying. Tired of the Mtn House packs. Learn how to make your own scrumptuous meals.We will also discuss plans for some easy and more complicated backpacks for the year. We will drive in due to closure of Benson Bridge and need to bring food dehydrators. Gate just past 10 mile marker on Larch MTN road will be open Friday at 5:00 PM and Saturday AM at 9:00 AM.
Register by April 30 with Linda Conrad on Trails Club Meetup website. Cost for weekend is $37 for Saturday night and three meals; Saturday Lunch, Saturday dinner and Sunday Breakfast. Please pay on line using Paypal: treasurer@trailsclub.org.
If you want to come up on Friday night bring your own dinner and breakfast and pay extra $10-$15 for Friday Night; depending on if you are member or not.
For more information or questions call: Linda Conrad at 360-837-3787

May 4 (Sun) Hagg Lake Loop Bike Class B

17.7 miles of beautiful rolling terrain, 1511 ft of elev. gain, 69 miles roundtrip driving from Portland. http://ridewithgps.com/routes/4451418
Meet at: 9 AM Gateway Transit Center at for carpooling. Or meet at Hagg Lake parking lot on the South end of the dam and plan to take off at about 10:30 am.
Leader: Chaz Shaw, 503-729-7560, chaznw@gmail.com

May 4 (Sun) Indian point - Class B

Let's hike this oldie but goodie in the Herman Creek area. We'll make a loop hike, going up the steeper Nick Eaton ridge trail, having lunch at Indian pt. (those wanting to venture out to the scary parts may do so) and then coming down the Gorton creek trail. 8 mile r/t with 2600 ft elevation gain. 78 miles driving r/t. NW forest pass req.
Depart: 9:30 AM Gateway Transit Center
Leader: Brian Carlson 503-960-9451 owatta53@hotmail.com

Week-2

May 7 (Wed) Morning Hike – Class A/B

We hike 4 to 6 miles, for 2 to 4 hours, usually in Forest Park, then lunch at a nearby cafe. If you would like to know the distance or difficulty of the hike, call the leader.
Depart: 9:30 AM from Friendly House on NW 26th between Savier and Thurman
Leader: Sue Davis; 503-201-5922 suzydl16@comcast.net.

May 7 (Wed) Evening Hike – Class B

We will hike approximately 6 miles in Forest Park and the West Hills with 500 foot elevation gain (not cumulative).
Depart: 6:00 PM from Wallace Park between NW 25th and 26th on NW Raleigh St.
Leader: Lotte Schmitz 503-722-2290 lotteschmitz@msn.com

May 8 (Thu) Bike and Dine - Sellwood Riverfront Park to Mississippi - Class A

Please join me for an easy ride and lunch! We'll start at Sellwood Riverfront Park and ride to the shopping district on N. Mississippi Ave. We'll have lunch at Por Que No (or elsewhere) and then ride back. About 15 miles round trip, part on the Esplanade, part on streets with a bike lane.
Depart: 10 AM Sellwood Riverfront Park (The Sellwood park down on the river by Oaks Park).
Leader: Audrey Perino, audrey53@comcast.net 503-246-6462 or 503-522-9911 (cell)

Week-3

May 14 (Wed) Morning Hike – Class A/B

May 14 (Wed) Evening Hike – Class B

May 15 (Thu) Adventure and Travel - Trails Club Bicycle Events

About every two years a volunteer steps forward and organizes a multi day bike ride for our club. In 2011 Allen Burrell organized a 180 mile bike trip to the panhandle of Idaho, the Coeur d’Alene Trails. This is a rails to trails path that follows the history of the area through the Silver Valley, The Bitterroot Mountains, the Hiawatha and the old Milwaukee line. Then in 2013, after hearing good things about a Natchez Trace bike ride organized for the TC by Bev & Gary Mohnkern in the mid 90’s, Gerda Eck stepped in to repeat this journey. THE TRACE is a National Park byway from Nashville Tennessee to Natchez Mississippi, recounting history back to the Indian tribes. This path was on a French map in 1720, was designated a National Scenic Route by Roosevelt in the 30’s and is now 444 miles long. This slide presentation will give you an insight of how the bike group of our club spends their vacations, it also includes a 10 minute short film of a "Coast to Coast 3000 mile adventure cycling journey" by Allen, Chaz and Gerda.
Meet: Rose Villa Fellowship Hall, 13505 SE River Road, Milwaukie. Social:6:15 PM, Program:7:00 PM
For more information please contact Barbara Jones at socialchair@trailsclub.org or 503-829-6424

May 16 (Fri) McMinnville – Wine Country Bike Loop – Class B

We will ride west of McMinnville and make loop thru farmland low hills riding at a leisurely pace. Highlights: McCabe Chapel, So Hill Cemetery and a rest stop at a farmers market. Possible side trip to the erratic rock. Ride is generally flat with options for additional miles and hills. Approximately 25 + miles. For questions or further directions, please contact Leader.
Meet at 10:00 am McMinnville City Park behind the McMinnville Aquatic Center. Take Hwy 99W to McMinnville, stay on Hwy 99W through Lafayette. In McMinnville, Hwy99 W will become a one way couplet, turn right on Park Street (aka 4th St) at McMinnville Aquatic Center.
Leader: Ralph Rogers (cell) 503-560-2750 rrogers500@gmail.com.

May 17 (Sat) Three Spires Hike - Class A/B

This seldom-visited, gorge hike begins in the Herman Creek area. Along the way, we'll pass varied terrain including beautiful and hidden, Pacific Crest Falls. Enjoy lunch at the unique, "Three Spires" rock formation. Return to cars by a partial loop. Vehicles will need to display a NW Forest Pass.
Hike: 6.8 miles w/ 1,400' (cumulative) elevation gain. Drive: 60 r/t miles.
Depart: 9:00 AM from Lewis & Clark State Park (I-84, exit 18)
Leader: Kelly Marlin mazamamama@frontier.com or 503-665-6778

May 17 (Sat) Oneonta and Horsetail falls loop - Class A

Hike starts at Horsetail falls, goes under Ponytail falls, and up to triple falls for a snack or ? Return down to Oneonto gorge. Hike 5.5 miles with 600' elv. gain. Drive 70 mile's R.T.
Depart 8:00 AM Gateway park & ride.
Leader: Art Harvey 503-684-5897

May 17-18 (Sat-Sun) Nesika Work Trip

Join us for our 2nd worktrip of the season. We will finish the woodshed expansion and get started on extending the high pressure water line to the multi-use dorm. If the weather is nice we hope to transfer wood to the woodroom at the lodge. Look for the usual trail maintenance and painting to occur. We also want to continue replacing trim that has been raven-ated.
Register with: Glen Conrad at 360-837-3787 or email lcgrconrad@aol.com or call before Thursday, May 15 so our cooks can prepare for the meals.

May 18 (Sun) Portland Loop Bike Ride—Class B

We will do a 32-mile loop on Portland's dedicated bike paths and on roads with bike lanes or little traffic. Mostly flat with some uphills and views of the Willamette and Columbia Rivers and Johnson Creek.
Contact leader for start time & location. Leader: Maureen Covell, 503-954-4501, or charleycvl@aol.com

Week-4

May 21 (Wed) Morning Hike – Class A/B

May 21 (Wed) Evening Hike – Class B

May 24 (Sat) Mosier Twin Tunnel Bike rides, class A, B or C

The dedicated paved bike and pedestrian path on the old Columbia Gorge Historic Highway for the first 8 miles is easy (class A) After the town of Mosier we'll share the road on Hwy 30, it has some good hills to test your skills. On the class B ride we will pedal to Rowena Crest, aka as Tom McCall Overlook and a total of 25 miles. For the advanced bicyclers in our club, option C takes you on to The Dalles and returns via the 7-mile hill road to Mosier and back to the starting point near Hood River. Bring lunch, water, spare tube and 10 essentials, helmet is required on TC rides.
Depart: 10am from Mark Hatfield State Park West (parking fee $5. or State Park pass)
Leaders: class A will ride with class B through the tunnels and return to the car on their own.
Leaders: class B ride Gerda Eck 503-804-4214, class C ride Allen Burrell 503-288-3859
Please register for the ride

Week-5

May 28 (Wed) Morning Hike – Class A/B

May 28 (Wed) Evening Hike – Class B

Let's Talk About

Hells Canyon Bench Trail to McGraw Creek Hike

5 great people joined us for this 25 mile trek. Weather was sunny, nights were cold. All did well. We arrived Thursday 4:00 PM at Copper Creek trail head and hiked 3 miles in to the junction at Spring Creek with Bench Creek Trail. We camped at a nice little plateau at the Snake River. We then hiked to just short of Squaw Creek a great little grassy stand of trees at about 4000 feet with a small spring. The next morning we day hiked up to the Bluff below the Bench Creek TH. We were unable to go to the TH because of snow. We had great views of elk, deer, eagles and hawks. We took a picture of Wolf print. There was old bear fecal matter. No bears spotted. Next day we traversed the ridge to the south ending at McGraw Cabin. We spent the night by the cabin and the creek. We had a buffett of all the extra food from everyone's packs; Cheetos with Humus, Cheese, Dark chocolate bars, etc. Hiked out on Sunday AM and was back home before dark. Total miles of driving: 696 miles. Linda Conrad Leader.

Ann Dudley receiving - Henry Waespe Award Recipient

And well deserved it was! And flowers to boot!

Other Awards

Gerda Eck receiving the High Leader Award at the banquet. Highly deserving and well earned! Also congratulations to the door prize winners, Pat Garvin, and Alice Wagstaff. They each received a certificate, good for next year’s banquet.

2014 TCO Banquet

The banquet was well attended with 91 registrations, and the social hour was much enjoyed by the group. The tables were decorated with bright yellow tablecloths, and assorted pots of spring flowers, which one person at each table got to take home. Famous Dave’s BBQ was enjoyed along with numerous salads and side dishes. Ice cream bars and cookies were served for dessert. The speaker, David Cobb, showed scenes from Iceland accompanied by music, and the last half of the program, showed his three-week backpack trip from the north shore of Iceland to the south shore. In one of the national parks, there are huts spaced ten miles apart that can be reserved. The hiking looked to be quite enjoyable, but the downside is a lot of wind almost every day.

Trails Trodden

Trails Ahead

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