Great video, did this hike in May along with all the others up the gorge. Just start recording my hikes and your video's gave me some great idea's! Very well done.
As an Oregon State Natural Area, it should fall under the general regulations of max 5 gallons per person per day for personal consumption. There wasn't any special rules posted when I visited.
This looks like a fun loop. Glad to see the route is unaffected by the Boulder Lake Fire of 2023 which burned all around Little Boulder Lake not Boulder Lake proper. Very helpful and well done guide! Thank you!
Great video! I would like to know the exact month (early, mid or late) of your visit for my research notes. Surprised to see not a single hiker on the trail besides you. Thanks!
I hiked extensively in this wilderness in the 80s and 90s. You caught every bit of its beauty. I once spent the night atop Lookout Mountain. What a lovely night it was. Thank you for helping me experience those memories!
I have not, but there looks to be plenty of camps up there, would probably be a great trip. My next video will be about backpacking in Badger Creek Wilderness just on the other side of HWY 35 in that area though.
Just did this today with my boys. Lovely spot. Next time, we'll bring water-resistant footwear. Those exposed roots formed pools and there was lots of mud. No regrets through. - Great trip report, BTW. Thank you! (hand prayer thingy)
Just did this trip! would not recommend going in late July. Mosquitos were very bad at every point, even at the highest points. The sun was hot with all the exposure and sadly it was very smokey due to Falls Fire approaching the area. Would recommend doing this trail, looking forward to trying this trail in the later season. Its very hard (lots of climbing) but good fun.
Thanks for sharing your experience, can definitely be a tough one to time. I had to cancel my first attempt to go there due to nearby forest fires many years back.
Thanks to your video, I recently got to check out these trails and they are such beautiful hidden gems! Got so lucky to see so much water flow and 100% recommend!
A quiet, lovely walk! It's nice that there is a bench or two along the way to sit and enjoy the peace. I would hope that part of the "restoration" of this former logging site includes the reintroduction of native trees to provide habitat diversity for birds and animals that formerly inhabited this area.
Very nice to discover this trail guide series. In the first 2/3 - 3/4 of this one, however, the color is very pale and washed out and you don't get to see the beautiful greenery until the very end.
Thanks, this is an interesting and informative series!. However, there were no close shots of Little Strawberry Lake and one cannot tell how far the campsites are from the lake???
Yeah, I see what you mean, sorry about that! It actually varies a little bit. The first group of campsites shown are set back more from the lake, probably 2 or 3 hundred feet. Then after you cross the little creek flowing out from the lake, those few sites after that are closer, more like 100 feet back from the lake, you can see the lake from the campsites over the buses there, i just didn't catch it well in the video. Also, the one site I show at the end is kind of a secluded one that is on a little hill farther from the lake.
Just a few years ago, there used to be an upper viewing deck and a hidden user trail to the bottom. The deck was removed after a fatality and the user trail has been usurped into the new trail to the base of the falls that you followed. I remember gripping that rock wall all the way down the slick mud back when it was only a user trail. People had sketchy ropes secured to lower yourself by but I never touched them. Glad to see there's a safer way now. Thanks for the vid.
Hey! glad to, the length is shown pretty early during intro and you can see it on the thumbnail, 7 miles. Or are you talking about something else? not sure what difference would be between length/mileage count.
I can remember when hiking at Cape Horn was a few pull offs on the side of the highway and a steep cobweb of trails that ended up right at the cliff face. I used to sit there and say hi to nearby turkey vultures and distant lightning. The waterfall felt great in July.
