Spencer Butte

From 52nd & Willamette TH, Ridgeline trail, "North Ridge" trail, Spencer Butte; down southwest trail to Spencer Butte TH, east back to the "main trail", north back to the Ridgeline trail, back to 52nd & Willamette TH.

Started at 7:29 pm. Worked pretty hard running up the initial trail. Amazing how "easy" it is to run at this lower elevation. Saw a wide trail turning off to the right after a series of switchbacks. It looked steep, so I didn't think it was the correct trail, but I took it anyway. This trail was just awesomely steep with superb footing, so I was into hiking mode not far up. I eventually had to switch my watch to altimeter mode to see my rate of ascent. Highest I saw was 75 ft/min, and I was probably sustaining something not far below that up this trail. Just super fun!

Topped out, and the summit was somewhat crowded. Got some trail info from a helpful guy I had passed near the top. He pointed me down the steep trail to the Spencer Butte TH and said it should take 8 minutes to get down. I just had to take a split and hammer the descent after hearing that. Made it down in about 4.5 minutes, then worked pretty hard climbing back to the trail that I'd intended to take to the summit. From there, the trail back was just perfect downhill singletrack (well, some uphill) through a tunnel of greenery. Awesome! I was just flying, and the Hokas were super-cush. Fantastic run!

0:00 - 52nd & Willamette TH
19:04 - Spencer Butte summit (taken a bit late as my watch was in altimeter mode, so probably just under 19)
27:21 - started down
31:48 - Spencer Butte TH
39:27 - just past the "main trail" junction, where the sign said 2.04 miles back to my TH
53:31 - 52nd & Willamette TH

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Silver Falls State Park

Short hike to Upper North Falls and North Falls with Lori, Mia, Anya, Jen, Scott, Kyle, and Xander.

Tom Dick and Harry Mtn

From the Mirror Lake TH, up to Mirror Lake, clockwise around the lake, back to the trail junction, then turned back up toward Tom Dick and Harry, to the west summit (end of the main trail), faint trail with lots of ups and downs over to the main summit, continued east to the top of the ski area on a good trail, then hammered down the ski area service roads and mountain bike trails to the base.

Started at 3:22 pm. Ran everything up until the last few minutes below the west summit where the trail got quite steep and loose. Amazing running at these lower elevations. Did poke around a bit at Mirror Lake, taking some pictures and locating the correct trail to continue up. Mostly hiking over to the main summit. Jogged over to the ski area. Then flew down the ski area. Super fun descent!

0:00 - Mirror Lake TH
50:02 - west summit - taken a bit late
1:07:26 - main summit - taken a bit late
1:29:07 - base of the ski area

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Umbrella Falls

Nice little hike with Lori, Mia, and Anya from just below the Mount Hood Meadows Ski Resort. Both girls had some fun running down the trail from the top of the falls, then Mia ran hard all the way back to the car.

Multnomah Falls & Larch Mtn

While Lori went for a run, Mia, Anya, and I hiked up the Multnomah Falls trail. We made it up a bit less than a mile before turning back.

After Lori returned, I headed back up the trail (starting at 3:08 pm). Felt SO good starting out from basically sea level. The paved trail here is quite steep, and it felt like nothing running up this. Legs and lungs felt great powering up this trail. Inadvertently took the spur out to the top of Multnomah Falls, but it was nice to see that. Then onto the beautiful singletrack, past some more waterfalls, under the HUGE trees. Just an awesome run! Passed a hiker at a trail junction (road 315?) maybe a mile or so from the summit and hiked with him for maybe 5-10 minutes before pushing on. Otherwise, ran most of the ascent. Dropped into the parking lot on the way up, then continued up to the summit at Sherrard Point. Ran back down over the SW summit, skipping the parking lot. Then worked pretty hard on the descent. Amazing running in the woods here!

0:00 - Multnomah Falls TH
(dup) - recall seeing something like 1:40:15 or 1:40:17 when I took the split at Sherrard Point
1:49:03 - starting down
2:57:17 - Multnomah Falls TH

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Saddle Rock

From Gregory TH, Amph, Saddle Rock, turned back at Greenman jct, went to the upper summit(s) of Saddle Rock, then down the same.

Started at 4:44 pm. With Lori. Starting out, I was intending to go up Green. But we wanted to take the girls to the pool, so I turned back as going to the top would chew up too much time. Waited for Lori at Saddle Rock, then she headed down. I tagged the high points off the trail above Saddle Rock (but LOJ lists the lower northern summit). I then caught up to Lori and descended with her.

0:00 - Gregory TH
10:00 - Amph/Saddle Rock
27:52 - Saddle Rock/Greenman
56:13 - Gregory TH

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Pikes

Started at 5:32 am.

0:00 - Barr TH
1:26:38 - Barr Camp
1:27:28 - leaving Barr Camp
2:09:16 - about at the A Frame aid
3:08:18 - race finish/turnaround
3:10:42 - Pikes summit
3:18:12 - starting down
4:13:22 - Barr Camp
4:16:14 - leaving Barr Camp
5:10:52 - Barr TH

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