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: Lane Harris Narration by Lane Harris Rain was in the forecast for the day we hiked this, but lo and behold, not a drop of water fell from the skies! Lucky us! Maybe because today was the winter solstice?… Beginning from the Susan Creek day use area, the Emerald Trail led us ¾ ………….click here to read more.
Hike coordinator: Lane Harris Narration by Lane Harris In 1915, Jessie Wright and her husband Perry homesteaded at Illahee Flats on the North Umpqua River. She was a sixteen-year-old bride then and for many years the Wrights packed in supplies with horses and mules for the Forest Service and early hunters in the area. In ………….click here to read more.
Hike Coordinator: Lane Harris Narration by Lane Harris While classic car enthusiasts sat around admiring hot rods, flatbed trucks, and the like during Roseburg’s Graffiti week, some of us opted to just sit around on Pine Bench. Literally, that’s what we did. But we had to get there first. Although not a strenuous hike, the ………….click here to read more.
Hike Coordinator: Terry Andreucci Narration by Terry Andreucci After a hour and half drive to the trailhead, 14 enthusiastic hikers started down the North Umpqua Trail to the top view of Lemolo Falls. In 1908, two rangers on horseback named a four-mile ridgeline south of the river as “Dread and Terror” in reference to the ………….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: Coreena Gosselin Narration by Richard O’Neill, edited by Lane Harris We had hoped this would be a repeat of last year’s superb autumn hike but alas, this was more like winter. It has been raining for the last several weeks and the rain drops have knocked a lot of the leaves down. But ………….click here to read more.
Hike Coordinator – Rheo Wheeler We had a good turnout of 16 for the sunny hike. We also had 3 of our 4 legged friends along for the trip. Riverview is sort of a boring road hike, but it’s on the sunny side of the North Umpqua with nice views overlooking the river. We separated ………….click here to read more.