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Badlands Dry River Canyon

  • Start date: 10/28/2018

  • Start time: 12:00 AM

  • End date: 10/30/2018

  • End time: 11:59 PM

Description:

The Badlands a 29,000 acre wilderness east of Bend. The primary goal is to hike the Dry River Canyon Trail which is closed from Feb. to Aug. 31st during raptor breeding season. We will also include other hikes in the area. Camping will be in the Crooked River Canyon. The camp ground just above the bank of the Crooked River has both water and good bathrooms. Participants will need to bring breakfast, lunch and snacks. We will go into Prineville for dinner. The weather at the end of October, you can plan on very cool nights. Day time temps can be warm and pleasant. You need to be prepared for both warm and cold conditions. I will call everyone prior to leaving

  • Event Leader: Jane Hackett

  • Event Leader Phone: 541-953-7046

  • Event Leader Email: hackett1575@comcast.net

  • Assistant Leader:

  • Event category: Trips

  • Area Type:

  • Departure Location: Behind McDonalds, 57th and Main in Springfield

  • Rating: Moderate

  • Roundtrip total drive miles: 275

  • Season: 2018

  • Permits Required:

  • Event Status: Passed

  • Supplies and Equipment Required: All the usual gear for car camping. No cotton, layering with rain and wind resistant outer layer. Binoculars, breakfast, lunch and trail snacks. I will provide stoves for heating water and food.

  • participant prerequisites:

  • Conditions:

  • Total Distance: 15

  • Member Fees: 2

  • Elevation Gain: 200

  • Non-Member Fees: 10

  • Committee: Trips

  • Junior member fees: —

Trip Report

Great trip. We made good time to our campsite in the Crooked River Canyon. We were able to sit up camp and do the only trail hike in this area before heading to town for dinner. The Chimney Rock hike is 2.5 miles round trip with an elevation gain of 500 feet the gives you a great view of canyon. Dinner was at the local brewery. The last time we were entertained by local musicians this time it was a class of local painter working on monsters. We managed to scare a Barn Owl off a telephone pole on the drive back to camp. The nights were pretty cool but we enjoyed a campfire when we returned to camp. The next day we hiked the Dry River Canyon Trail after a short diversion via GPS through the back country. The Dry River Trail is about 6 miles round trip. The trail is rocky. You are hiking between walls of basalt covered with lichen and mosses. We found 2 large Golden eagle nests plus 3 other stick nest of smaller size. This explains why the trail is closed from 2/1 to 8/31, raptors are nesting. We started this hike in the morning and you are walking into the sun it would have been better to start later. We added 2 more miles, hiking part of the Mountain Ash Trail, totally different landscape, open, sandy with large old Junipers. We headed into Prineville for Mexican food and then back to camp for a final campfire.