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: Brad Bishop Narration by Brad Bishop Sixteen hikers showed up to get 2026 off to a healthy start as the giant full moon greeted us on this brisk but dry morning. If we played our cards right, or should I say our footsteps right, we would have no rain for our journey. As ………….click here to read more.
Hike coordinator: John Malone Narration by Rheo Wheeler This hike was initially planned for Cape Arago. But due to crowded conditions on the highway and possible downed trees from a weather system, it was changed to something closer to home: Good old North Bank Habitat, the tried-and-true friend of the uphill hike. John chose the ………….click here to read more.
Hike Coordinator: Terry Andreucci Narration by Lane Harris We had a pretty good turnout on this hike to North Bank, which was the backup plan to the canceled Rogue River trail hike. That hike would have to wait another day once they clear the landslide that occurred just a half mile in. So, to match ………….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: Brad Bishop Narration by Brad Bishop So, I’m trying to get back into the swing of things with FOTU* and decided I would take on the immense responsibility of leading a group of seasoned but apprehensive hikers into the North Bank Habitat for our New Year hike.*Friends Of The Umpqua Eight folks decided ………….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: 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: Brad Bishop Narration by Brad Bishop It was the best of times, it was the worst of times. Anticipation was thick in the air. I had led an ambitious group of adventurers over snow covered hills and down frigid valleys at the start of 2022 on The Worst Hike Ever. Now, our return ………….click here to read more.
Hike coordinator: Brad Bishop Narration by Brad Bishop Imagine a hiking world, a world where the downhill stretches are making you breath hard. A world where you are praying to mush through muddy cattle tracks. A world where a practical joker running down the trail and yelling STOP! STOP! makes you automatically think someone has ………….click here to read more.
Hike Coordinator – John Malone This was a substitute hike because weather precluded the scheduled hike into the Rogue-Umpqua Divide Wilderness. So, it was no surprise to the 5 hikers who showed up that it was raining. But since we are Oregonians well used to the rain, we just put on the rain gear and ………….click here to read more.