Backpacking Oregon by Douglas Lorain

Author:Douglas Lorain
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780899977768
Publisher: Wilderness Press
Published: 2018-03-10T16:00:00+00:00

TIP: Camps in this area are best made near the previous crossings of two small creeks, or turn right and drop 500 feet in 1.5 miles to a spring with a good campsite. The as-fancy-as-it-sounds Hotel de Bum, a small camp at the headwaters of the East Fork of Canyon Creek, offers good views of Indian Creek Butte.

NOTE: From this point to a little beyond Strawberry Mountain, wildfires have made great changes to the landscape, still starkly in evidence along the trail.

The main trail stays straight at the four-way junction and cuts across the east face of Indian Creek Butte. To the east, across the deep canyon of Indian Creek, rises Strawberry Mountain, the highest point in this range. The trail contours through a low saddle to a junction. Turn left and travel east along the ridge to a large meadow, which supports scattered wildflowers in July and has an exceptionally picturesque view of Strawberry Mountain. From here the trail drops to a junction where there is a choice of trails. To the right, the main trail drops to the wildflowers of Wildcat Basin (decent camps) before climbing through an interesting eroded “badlands” back up to the ridge. A shorter but equally scenic route, described here, from the junction goes left, passes a junction with the Indian Creek Trail, and soon reaches a beautiful little meadow at the head of Indian Creek. This marshy basin holds lots of wildflowers, provides a fine vista of the cliffs to the south, and has good camps.

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