Could it be the Cripple Creek trail?

Kelly:

Now you have gone too far upriver. You drove past this trail's trailhead to go to the Riverside.

Doug:

It's not Cripple Creek.

I give up! It is the Alder Flat Trail. I didn't know that it would be that hard.

So if anyone wants to post a photo from one of our trails and start this game going again be my guest.

I hope other people got out last weekend with the clear weather we had and did some hiking or something. I was out last Sunday and  hiked up one of our abandoned trails in the snow to get away from the city. There are several trails that are 'off the map' but still open to hiking in the winter, if you pick one that is on a south facing slope, or you can be with everyone else down on the Clackamas River. The "Sounds of Two Rivers Trail" near the Roaring River is always good. Cripple Creek Trail is also a good choice, wether you choose the lower or upper trailhead to start.

I went on a fairly new find up near Austin Hot Springs that is very similar to the "Sounds of Two Rivers Trail" in that it follows a south facing ridge with many switchbacks. There was only an inch or so of snow at the bottom, but ended up at about 6 inches of snow at 3000 feet at the top. The sun came out a few times, but that only helped the snow to fall out of the trees in clumps. It was a good day of hiking for February on the Clackamas.

I hope to get out next weekend, but with the snow down low, I have a feeling I won't be going up to high either.

Don

Donald Presley said:

I give up! It is the Alder Flat Trail. I didn't know that it would be that hard.

So if anyone wants to post a photo from one of our trails and start this game going again be my guest.

Don,

I thought it had to be Alder Flat from the clues you gave, but I didn't say anything because I didn't have any more pictures to post if I was right.  So I went out today and took this one:

This is not an official trail, but it is a route that has been discussed on this forum.   Maybe that's a little outside of the rules of this game, but this is where I went today to find some of that snow that everyone's been talking about, so this is the photo I have to offer.  It's not in a wilderness area.

I knew it was Alder Flat too after your last clue.  At first I thought it was that lower section of Cripple Creek we went on, so I didn't answer.  After your clue I immediately knew where it was, especially since I just did that trail not too long ago.

I think the new photo is the old roadbed along Fish Creek.  Those alders look pretty familiar.

I think we need to come up with a new game as people seem to be running out of photos.  Maybe some variation of the map game that Don posted a while back?