Friends of the Umpqua Hiking Group
A Roseburg, Oregon hiking club. Providing guided hikes to the Coast, the Cascades, and all points in between!
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.
Hike Coordinator: Lane Harris Narration by Lane Harris The annual game of chance called “Schedule a Hike but Avoid the Fires” was well under way by the time August rolled around. And so far, so good… until this hike, which was supposed to be Mt. June at the far north end of the Umpqua National ………….click here to read more.
Hike Coordinator: Lane Harris Narration by Lane Harris Beginning from Mount Ashland Road, our group headed out on the PCT, threading through a beautifully shaded forest. The trail is fairly level, and goes through several small meadows initially. Although it enters and exits the woods a few times, the trail eventually yields to all meadow. ………….click here to read more.
Hike Coordinator: Missy Kroeker Narration by Missy Kroeker Cone Peak/Iron Mountain trail is known for its spectacular wildflower show this time of year and amazing views of iconic Oregon peaks but……. It was Independence Day weekend, there was an excessive heat advisory in effect, a two- and half-hour drive to the trailhead at Tombstone Pass ………….click here to read more.
Hike Coordinator: Edwin Case Narration by Lane Harris Back in October of 2023, Edwin had this hike scheduled before the winter snows came. Or so he thought. The hike wasn’t a total bust, and walking through the snowy landscape was like strolling through a delightful winter wonderland. But that same snow stopped us short of ………….click here to read more.
Be sure to check out all the links in this post,there are a lot of them! During our annual campout, ten intrepid adventurers toured the landscape of the most northwestern part Oregon. JUNE 13, 2024 SADDLE MOUNTAIN Located just east of Seaside, this popular trail leads hikers up the slopes of Saddle Mountain. This was ………….click here to read more.
Hike coordinator: Terry Andreucci Beginning from Deming Gulch Trailhead, the small group of hikers hiked along the 25-mile-long Sterling Mine Ditch Trail. Although they did not walk the entire 25 miles, they did go back in time and experience a little history. This entire trench was dug by hand for the sole purpose of transporting ………….click here to read more.