South Slough – February 4, 2023

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Hike Coordinator: Rheo Wheeler Narration by Rheo Wheeler With a nicer weather forecast for our hike day, we had a good turnout for our trek through the South Slough Estuary. Eleven F.O.U. members plus 3 from the South Coast Striders out of Coos Bay joined up at the information center. With no information on the ………….click here to read more.

Dellenback Dunes – January 21, 2023

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Hike Coordinator: John Malone Narration: Rheo Wheeler Dellenback Dunes was a 6+ mile hike in the wind and rain. Not ideal conditions when you have a spectacular destination, worse when it’s a slog out and back with no beach time. King tides of 8+ feet kept us in the dunes for this test of our ………….click here to read more.

Floras Lake and Blacklock Point – January 7, 2023

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Hike Coordinator: Lane Harris Narration by Lane Harris Blacklock Point is one of the most beautiful spots on the Oregon coast, and hardly anyone knows about it. This rugged headland, just north of Cape Blanco, is one of the wildest spots on the coast. Although traffic on Hwy 101 whizzes by just a few miles ………….click here to read more.

North Bank Habitat – December 31, 2022

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Hike Coordinator: Brad Bishop Narration by Brad Bishop Well, this one was more unusual than most of my unusual outings. What was going to be ‘The Powder to Chowder’ hike in celebration of the start of the beginning of this year’s ‘Worst Hike Ever’ took a turn in a direction that I never would have ………….click here to read more.

Cooper Creek Reservoir – December 10, 2022

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Hike Coordinator: Rheo Wheeler Narration by Rheo Wheeler We had an even dozen show up for the Cooper Creek hike. This is somewhat surprising due to the nasty rainy windy forecast, but the clouds parted, and we had a sunny start, rainy middle, with a somewhat clearing ending. New people and new dogs all seemed ………….click here to read more.

North Bank Habitat – November 26, 2022

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Hike Coordinator: Brad Bishop Narration by Brad Bishop This hike was meant to be a lovely jaunt along the Oregon Coast at the funky little seaside town of Bandon. Much to my dismay a couple of weeks before the hike date I was informed that not only was there going to be a high tied ………….click here to read more.

North Umpqua Hot Springs – November 12, 2022

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Hike Coordinator: Missy Kroeker Narration by Missy Kroeker What can be better than a hike on the North Umpqua Trail in the fall of the year? It was a Saturday in November, the 12th to be exact, that the Friends of the Umpqua hiked the Hot Springs segment of the NUT. This section never disappoints. ………….click here to read more.

Upper Rogue River – October 29, 2022

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Hike Coordinator: Richard O’Neill Narration by Richard O’Neill Misery loves company and I’ve been known to take friends on a hike that made me miserable. However, the opposite can be true in that happy hikers also love company, which is why I took the Friends to the Upper Rogue River. The Upper Rogue is the ………….click here to read more.

Briggs Creek – October 15, 2022

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Hike coordinator: Richard O’Neill Narration by Richard O’Neill We were few but we were mighty. Four of us, includng your intrepid hike leader, made the trip to Briggs Valley for a nice and easy hike along Briggs Creek. The area had been off limits for most of the summer because of the nearby Rum Creek ………….click here to read more.

Fish Lake – September 17, 2022

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Hike Coordinator: Missy Kroeker Narration by Missy Kroeker “When Hobbits threw a birthday party (and they usually did), all guests were presented with a small gift. ……… The tradition has been elaborated as a form of thanksgiving, so it was taken as a recognition of services, benefits and friendship shown, especially in the past year” ………….click here to read more.