Read Ebook {PDF EPUB} 100 Hikes in the Central Oregon Cascades by William L. Sullivan Central Oregon Cascades. Several years ago we set a goal for ourselves to hike all 500 featured hikes in William L. Sullivan’s “100 Hikes…” series of guidebooks (post). In 2020 we finished the first of his five guidebooks covering the Central Oregon Cascades. The achievement became bittersweet just 10 days after finishing the final featured hike at Erma Bell Lakes (post) when a freak windstorm caused the Lionshead and Beachie fires to explode burning a number of the trails that we had hiked on our journey to complete this goal. On the one hand we were fortunate enough to see these areas before they burned but it also means being more aware of what was lost, at least for the time being. The 2020 fires were not the first to burn trails that we’d hiked in the area, sometimes after and sometimes before. Fire is part of a forest’s cycle but their time frames take much longer than ours. For this post we want to recap our journey to complete the 100 featured hikes while sharing a little of what the area looked like as we experienced it but first a little context. The area that Sullivan covers in the Central Cascades book, as well as his books for the other four areas, isn’t exactly easy to define. The vast majority of hikes could be fit into a rectangle starting with the upper left hand corner in Salem and extending east to Highway 97 then south to the junction of highways 97 & 58, then west until intersecting with a line due south from Salem. (The imaginary line follows I5 south until Cottage Grove where the freeway jogs SW.) That is over simplification though as that description overlaps at times with hikes described in the NW & Eastern books and excludes two featured hikes west of I5 and two east of Highway 97. The first snip below generally shows the described rectangle with the hiker symbols representing trailheads where we have started hikes (not limited to the featured hikes being discussed here). The second snip excludes any hikes that are included in one of the other areas that Sullivan covers. The area is home to a variety of landscapes and ecosystems and contains at least parts of nine designated Wilderness Areas: Opal Creek, Bull of the Woods, Mt. Jefferson, Mt. Washington, Three Sisters, Menagerie, Middle Santiam, Waldo Lake, and Diamond Peak. The area has been hit by a number of large fires since 2000. The map below covers the same approximate area as the second map above. The colored areas represent fires with yellow being 2000-2005, light orange 2006-10, dark orange 2011-14, and red 15-19. Not included in the map above are the Green Ridge, Beachie or Lionshead Fires from 2020. The Green Ridge fire did not burn over any of the featured hikes (it did burn part of the Green Ridge Trail) but the Beachie and Lionshead Fires impacted a number of hikes in the Mt. Jefferson, Bull of the Woods and Opal Creek Wilderness and surrounding areas. The map below includes the Riverside Fire (large fire to the north), Beachie and Lionshead (center left and right which combined after Labor Day) and the Green Ridge Fire (SE). We were lucky enough to complete many of the hikes prior to them being burned but we also hiked a number post fire and have seen the recovery in process. I’ve done my best to note below if a featured hike has experienced fire since 2000 with the year and name of the fire. After all of that here are the 100 featured hikes from the 2012 4th edition of “100 Hikes in the Central Oregon Cascades”: #1 – Ankeny Wildlife Refuge-Hiked 4/6/2014. #2 – Silver Fall-Hiked 2006, 7/30/2010 & 3/29/2018 Middle North Falls. #3 – Shellburg Falls-Hiked 5/23/2011 Burned-2020 Beachie Fire Shellburg Falls. #4 – Little North Santiam-Hiked 4/5/2012 Burned-2020 Beachie Fire. #5 – Henline Falls & Henline Mountain 7/27/2009 & 6/14/2020 Burned-2020 Beachie Fire Henline Falls. #6 – Opal Creek 7/4/2010, 7/4/2012, 6/21/2014 & 7/24/2019 Burned-2020 Beachie Fire Jawbone Flats. #7 – Dome Rock and Tumble Lake 7/18/2010 Burned-2020 Beachie Fire Tumble Lake from Dome Rock. #8 – Battle Ax and Twin Lakes 9/20/2014 Mt. Jefferson from Battle Ax. #9 – Stahlman Point 5/6/2013 Burned 2020 Beachie Fire View from Stahlman Point. #11 – Three Pyramids 7/18/2020 Meadow below the Three Pyramids. #12 – Crescent Mt. 7/6/2014 Beargrass on Crescent Mountain. #13 – Browder Ridge 9/9/2012 & 7/4/2018 Mt. Jefferson from Browder Ridge. #14 – Echo Basin and Fish Lake 6/19/2020 Boardwalk in Echo Basin. #15 – Iron Mt. 7/25/2010 & 7/4/2014 Iron Mountain from the trail. #18 – Cascadia State Park 6/12/2016 Soda Creek Falls. #20 – McDowell Creek Park 2/16/2014 Majestic Falls. #21 – South Breitenbush Gorge 5/11/2013 Burned 2020 Lionshead Fire Roaring Creek. #22 – Jefferson Park 9/23/2011, 10/13/2014, & 8/8/2015 Burned partly in 2017 Whitewater and rest in 2020 Lionshead Fire Mt. Jefferson. #24 – Marion Lake 10/3/2014 & 9/10/2016 Burned 2002 Mt. Marion, 2003 B&B Complex, 2006 Puzzle, 2015 208SRZ Marion Three Fingered Jack from Marion Lake. #25 – Duffy Lake 7/28/2010 Burned 2002 Mt. Marion, 2003 B&B Complex Mowich Lake and Duffy Butte from Red Butte. #26 – Three Fingered Jack 10/13/2012 Burned 2003 B&B Complex. #27 – Canyon Creek Meadows 7/28/2013 Burned 2003 B&B Complex Three Fingered Jack. #28 – Carl Lake 9/1/2018 Burned 2003, B&B Complex, 2006 Puzzle. #29 – Metolius River 7/23/2012 Wizard Falls. #30 – Black Butte 10/13/2013 & 5/28/2018 Burned 2009 Black Butte II. #31 – Alder Springs 8/3/2011 Deschutes River. #34 – Smith Rock 7/14/2006, 7/13/2011 & 6/5/2015 Monkey Face. #35 – Shevlin Park 8/5/2011 Hixson Crossing Covered Bridge. #37 – Dillon & Benham Falls 8/1/2013 Benham Falls. #38 – Lava Cast Forest and Lava River Cave 5/28/2017. #40 – LaPine State Park 9/16/2015 Deschutes River. #41 – Poxy Falls and Linton Lake 5/3/2014(Proxy Falls) & 6/25/2017(Linton Lake) Burned (Linton Falls) 2017 Separation Fire Proxy Falls. #42 – Obsidian Trail 10/14/2012 Burned (tiny portion of trail) 2017 Separation Fire Obsidian Falls. #43 – Four-in-one-Cone 10/14/2012 & 8/14/2019 View from Four-in-One-Cone. #44 – Benson Lake 10/14/2012 & 8/30/2014 Burned (small section of longer loop trail) 2010 Scott Mt. Fire. #46 – Little Belknap Crater 9/14/2015 Mt. Washington, Three Fingered Jack, and Mt. Jefferson from Little Belknap Crater. #47 – Matthieu Lakes 7/29/2013 Burned 2017 Milli Fire North Sister from South Matthieu Lake. #48 – Black Crater 10/1/2016 Burned 2017 Milli Fire Former lookout site on Black Crater. #49 – Chambers Lakes 8/26/2014 Burned 2012 Pole Creek Fire South Sister from Camp Lake. #50 – Park Meadow 8/27/2014 Burned 2012 Pole Creek Fire Middle and North Sister from Golden Lake. #51 – Tam McArthur Rim 8/31/2013 Broken Top and Broken Hand from Tam McArthur Ridge. #52 – Tumalo Mt. 9/27/2014 Trees near the summit of Tumalo Mountain. #53 – Todd Lake and Broken Top 8/23/2014 Broken Top from No Name Lake. #54 – Sparks Lake 10/1/2014 South Sister from Sparks Lake. #55 – Green Lakes via Fall Creek 9/15/2015 The third Green Lake. #56 – Moraine Lake and South Sister 9/1/2013 Looking north from the South Sister. #57 – Sisters Mirror Lake 9/19/2015 South Sister from Sisters Mirror Lake. #58 – Horse Lake 8/4/2011 Horse Lake. #59 – Doris & Cliff Lakes 9/29/2014 Doris Lake. #61 – Sahalie & Koosah Falls 9/9/2012 Sahalie Falls. #63 – Rainbow Falls and Separation Lake 5/3/2014 Separation Lake. #64 – Horsepasture Mt. 7/7/2018 South Sister and Mt. Bachelor form Horsepasture Mountain. #65 – Olallie Mt. 9/1/2019 Burned 2017 Olallie Lookout Fire (Lookout burned down winter 2019/20). #66 – Lowder Mt. 9/1/2019 View from Lowder Mountain. #67 – Tidbits Mt. 6/29/2019 View from Tidbits Mountain. #68 – Castle Rock 6/3/2017 Monkeyflower and plectritis on Castle Rock. #69 – French Pete Creek 5/16/2015 Burned 2017 Rebel and 2018 Terwilliger Fires. #70 – Erma Bell Lakes 8/29/2020 Middle Erma Bell Lake. #71 – Spencer Butte 2/9/2020 Fog over Eugene. #72 – Mt. Pisgah 10/5/2019 Summit marker on Mt. Pisgah. #74 – Fall Creek 3/31/2013 Burned 2003 Clark and 2017 Jones Fires. #75 – Mt. June 6/2/2013 Sawtooth Trail. #77 – Patterson Mt. 5/5/2018 Lone Wolf Meadow. #78 – Tire Mt. 6/8/2014 Wildflowers along the Tire Mt. Trail. #79 – North Fork and Buffalo Rock 5/10/2020 Buffalo Rock from the North Fork Willamette River. #81 – Blair Lake and Wall Creek 6/11/2015 Beargrass meadow along the Blair Lake Trail. #82 – Chuckle Springs 5/24/2020 Burned 2009 Tumblebug Complex Indigo Springs (These springs have not burned.) #83 – Spirt, Moon, and Pinard Falls 6/17/2020 Moon Falls. #84 – Brice Creek 5/5/2014 Upper Trestle Creek Falls. #86 – Eddeeleo Lakes 8/25/2018 Lower Eddeeleo Lake. #87 – Waldo Mt. 9/7/2013 View from the Waldo Mountain Lookout. #92 – Rosary Lakes and Maiden Peak 9/3/2016 Pulpit Rock from Middle Rosary Lake.