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!
(Formerly known as Cape Mountain) Hike Coordinator: Lane Harris Narration by Lane Harris “If the plan doesn’t work, change the plan but not the goal.” ~ Anonymous I imagine this anonymous guy or girl must’ve had a big hike planned and had to change it at the last moment. Ok, so I guess that quote ………….click here to read more.
Hike Coordinator: Penny Groth Narration by Penny Groth Fifteen eager hikers gathered on a cold (but dry!) morning at the courthouse. Destination: Heceta Head lighthouse and trail! Upon our arrival at the lighthouse, we were joined by 10 – 15 Striders (Coos Bay hiking club). So, well, there was a mob of us (a friendly ………….click here to read more.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.