Friends of the Umpqua Hiking Group
A Roseburg, Oregon hiking club. Providing FREE guided hikes to the Coast, the Cascades, and all points in between!
Hike Coordinator: Lane Harris Narration by Lane Harris The Sutton Creek Recreational Area is a lushly forested area flanking Sutton Creek, which was mostly hidden by the thick growth. It was like walking through miles and miles of a vegetation tunnel, with some sand dunes sprinkled in here and there. We departed from Alder Dune ………….click here to read more.
Hike Coordinator: Rheo Wheeler Narration by Rheo Wheeler We had a group of 12, brave the elements for our blue-ribbon hike, follow the blue ribbons, for a 6ish miler. We had dry skies, but very muddy trails for an up and down around and around oak savanna hike with varying degrees of distance by the ………….click here to read more.
Hike Coordinator: Diane Rannow Narration by Lane Harris This favorite coastal destination never fails to disappoint! We had a great turnout on this one, as we made our way to the trailhead at the Sunset Bay day use area. During the short road walk less than a mile in, we walked right past where the ………….click here to read more.
Hike coordinator: Brad Bishop Narration by Brad Bishop Well, well, well. Here we are again, another New Year’s Hike. Thirteen lucky hikers decided to do the right thing and move their bodies and engage their minds on another North Bank New Year’s trek. We had a good contingent from the Grants Pass area come on ………….click here to read more.
Hike Coordinator: Lane Harris Narration by Lane Harris Rain was in the forecast for the day we hiked this, but lo and behold, not a drop of water fell from the skies! Lucky us! Maybe because today was the winter solstice?… Beginning from the Susan Creek day use area, the Emerald Trail led us ¾ ………….click here to read more.
Hike Coordinator: Tery Andreucci Narration by Terry Andreucci Five hikers met in Roseburg for a 2-hour drive to Lost Creek Lake and the Blue Grotto Trailhead. Additionally, five other hikers from the Grants Pass area met us at the trailhead. The hike took us along the north shore of the lake to an interesting box ………….click here to read more.
Hike Coordinator: Rheo Wheeler Narration by Rheo Wheeler Hiking in the rain is not our favorite thing, but it’s always invigorating to be outdoors on a dreary day. However, this was not the case though on our South Slough Estuary hike. The hiking gods were quite kind. We had a group of 9 folks from ………….click here to read more.
Hike Coordinator: Penny Groth Narration by Penny Groth Twenty hikers gathered on a brisk morning to head up to Lake in the Woods. This was a wonderful conglomerate of ages, and also many new, or recently new, participants of the hiking club. A large percentage hadn’t hiked in the area previously. Our drive up 138 ………….click here to read more.
Hike Coordinator: Lane Harris Narration by Lane Harris I must admit, whenever the weather calls for extreme wet skies, I will typically forgo walking through rain and mud with my fellow club members on our scheduled hikes. It’s nothing personal, I’d just rather stay home and catch up on my favorite tv shows gathering dust ………….click here to read more.
Hike Coordinator: Diane Rannow Narration by Rheo Wheeler We left Roseburg with a 2-car caravan up the North Umpqua to the Rogue Gorge viewpoint for our trek downstream to the Natural Bridge. We met up with the rest of our group at the trailhead for our 3.5-mile trek downstream. The weather was perfect, though it ………….click here to read more.