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 – Richard O’Neill The Friends of the Umpqua, aided and abetted by members of the Coos Bay hiking club, the South Coast Striders, numbered a lucky 13 on this hike on Cape Mountain. While the term “mountain” implies a certain geological element to the hike, this hike was all about the forest. Tall ………….click here to read more.
Hike Coordinator – John Malone The forecast for Saturday December 2nd was a grim one, which is probably why only 3 hardy souls showed up at the library car park, and made the drive over to the coast. At the trail head they were thrilled to find Rachel and Traci from the South Coast Striders ………….click here to read more.
Hike Coordinator – Edwin Case A mid-November day blessed a dozen hikers with unusually great weather and an outstanding hike on one of the most beautiful stretches along the Rogue River. Our leader for this hike, Edwin, met us in Riddle to begin the day’s expedition. The road to the trailhead was quite twisty, but ………….click here to read more.
Hike Coordinator – Edwin Case The weather gods were kind to us, sort of. It had rained entire bathtubs of water for the week prior but we actually drove to the trailhead under a semi-blue sky. However, once we started hiking, it dark clouds floated in and took away the sun. This was the tail ………….click here to read more.
Hike Coordinator – Richard O’Neill Rain, rain, rain…so much rain. That would explain why only 5 hikers showed up for this hike. Originally, the hike was slated for a circumnavigation of Clear Lake but as we drove up the McKenzie Highway, the temperature dropped and was rapidly approaching freezing temperatures. Not wanting to deal with ………….click here to read more.
Hike Coordinator Diana Pace 18 Friends of the Umpqua hikers went to Sacchi Beach. On a mostly sunny morning with nearly no wind we started at Seven Devils Wayside. The group hiked north for about 1.5 miles until we met a rock wall and the incoming tide. The wisdom of the group was that we ………….click here to read more.
Hike Coordinator – John Malone Saturday morning 9 Friends of the Umpqua traveled up highway 138 to Windigo Pass Trailhead. The group was led by John. Club Regulars were Rheo, Edwin, Dr Wendy, Goaying and her daughter Emma, age 7. Newcomers were Brad and Chealsy. We started hiking at approximately 10am. Snow was on the ground but ………….click here to read more.
Hike Coordinator – Edwin Case It was a smoky morning in Roseburg and destined to get even smokier as the week progressed. Eleven people turned out in spite of the smoke and heat and drove in a three car caravan to the South Slough Reserve close to Charleston over on the coast. Two of the group were ………….click here to read more.
Hike Coordinator – Lane Harris With the Umpqua National Forest plagued with fires and lung-choking smoke, going to a high cascade mountain lake proved to be an excellent escape from all that. Lane led 12 hikers on a trek to Calamut Lake and beyond. After a short 1.5 mile hike to Calamut Lake, the group ………….click here to read more.
Hike Coordinator – Richard O’Neill Lane and I had hiked this trail several weeks prior on a cold and dreary day. What a difference several weeks make. The cold and the dreariness had long since been banished by the heat of summer and we all looked forward to hiking along a beautiful cascading river in ………….click here to read more.