Red Mountain Archives – GlassMountains Trip Reports

On Wednesday, August 31, I joined Larry Luehring at the McBride Campground in the Wallowa Whitman National Forest near Halfway, Oregon. Our plan was to pack in to Crater Lake on the south side of the Wallowa Mountains and to subsequently climb both Red Mountain and Krag Peak from our camp.

Paul on the Summit Point Trail (Larry Luehring photo)

Larry and I were high school friends. I had first started hiking, backpacking, snowshoeing, cross-country skiing, and mountain climbing in Oregon with Larry during our college years. Larry now lives near Portland, Texas, and I had not seen him for 13 years. We reconnected in the context of a July high school reunion which, in the end, neither of us could attend.

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In mid September I hiked and scrambled up Red Mountain and Crown Point in the Elkhorn Mountains of NE Oregon. I accessed these Elkhorn Range Peaks from the east and west side of the Range. I felt renewed by the experience. We are blessed with many diverse and scenic destinations to explore in Oregon.

On September 16 I drove from Bend to Baker City. I checked in with the Forest Service there about road conditions along the North Powder River. This is a popular 4WD route, though reportedly quite rocky.

The people I spoke to at the Forest Service were 4-wheelers, themselves. They described driving through the flooded road with water up to the windows. They cautioned that there might still be some flooding on the road. I left expecting an adventure.

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Red Mountain (Wallowa), Oregon, September 2022

Elkhorn Range Peaks, September 2014