AWAY/Columbia Truth Trail

aWAY.
Columbia Truth Trail

in short: ♥ exclusive excursions for two ♥ fully organized ♥ value for value ♥ following the organic self sufficient off the grid closer to Gaia's principles ₰ no hurries, no worries ₰ the more we are, the more we share the more we share, the more we are

SMEs ₰ gaia - virtual geology and geographic planning, design, framework based on Más Muisca ₰ Ophallus - local organization and delivery

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The 1000 mile Columbia Truth Trail, fully organized by aWAY., offers an exclusive, elusive and immersive truthful journey through the US American state of Oregon

led by Ophallus and research and planning by gaia.

Truth Trail

• Commons Wiki - Hiking trails in Oregon

aWAY.
1000 mile 15 day Columbia Truth Trail

1	Gestaportland	File:Portland&MtHood.jpg	File:Multnomah County Oregon Incorporated and Unincorporated areas Portland Highlighted.svg	Truth Topics - Gestaportland, BLM Programming, consult Ophallus & gaia for more
2a	Gestaportland-Mt. Hood 80 - 88 miles - 20 mpg @ 2.33 USD / g = $ 9.33 ~ 10 - 12 USD	accommodation Mt. Hood $ ?? USD	1 hr 20 min (79.9 miles) via I-84 E Fastest route, the usual traffic 1 hr 50 min (88.0 miles) via US-26 E and OR-35 N Scenic route	RISKS, stops, toilets, gas stations, clinics, fire brigade, police, etc.
2 - 4	Mt. Hood	File:Mount Hood reflected in Mirror Lake, Oregon.jpg	File:Map of Oregon highlighting Clackamas County.svg File:Map of Oregon highlighting Hood River County.svg	Truth Topics - Anthropogenic Global Warming Hoax, Pleistocene natural climate change, consult gaia & Ophallus for more
5a	Mt. Hood - John Day 222 - 231 miles - 20 mpg @ 2.33 USD / g = $ 25.55 - 28 USD	accommodation John Day $ ?? USD	4 hr 12 min (222 miles) via OR-206 E and OR-19 S Fastest route, the usual traffic 4 hr 23 min (231 miles) via US-26 E Southern Mt. Hood route	RISKS, stops, toilets, gas stations, clinics, fire brigade, police, etc.
5 - 8	John Day Fossils]	File:Blue basin lower trail.jpg	File:Map of Oregon highlighting Wheeler County.svg File:Map of Oregon highlighting Grant County.svg	Truth Topics - Fossil Hoax, volcanic eruptions and extinctions, consult Ophallus & gaia for more
9a	John Day - Coyote Butte 23.8 miles - 20 mpg @ 2.33 USD / g = $ 2.5 USD	accommodation Coyote Butte $ ?? USD	38 min (23.8 miles) via US-26 W only route	RISKS, stops, toilets, gas stations, clinics, fire brigade, police, etc.
9 - 10	Coyote Butte	File:Sunset in the Oregon Badlands (16559062463).jpg	File:Map of Oregon highlighting Crook County.svg	Truth Topics - Gestaportland, BLM Programming, consult Ophallus & gaia for more
11a	Coyote Butte - Silver Falls, Salem 240 miles - 20 mpg @ 2.33 USD / g = $ 2.5 USD	accommodation Coyote Butte $ ?? USD	4 h 55 min (240 miles) via US-26 W and OR-22 W/N Santiam Hwy E best route ?	RISKS, stops, toilets, gas stations, clinics, fire brigade, police, etc.
11	Jefferson County	File:Three Fingered Jack in summer 2011 (6).JPG	File:Jefferson County Oregon Incorporated and Unincorporated areas Warm Springs Highlighted.svg	Truth Topics - .... Ophallus & gaia for more
12	Silver Falls	File:Middle North Falls.JPG	File:Marion County Oregon Incorporated and Unincorporated areas Salem Highlighted.svg	Truth Topics - Salem Witch Trials; fake, but irrelevant; the concept is real; everything has meaning, Corona Craze Programming, consult Ophallus & gaia for more
13a	Silver Falls, Salem - Saddle Mountain, Clatsop Co. 119 miles - 20 mpg @ 2.33 USD / g = $ 14 USD	accommodation Coyote Butte $ ?? USD	2 h 55 min (119 miles) via US-26 W and OR-22 W/N Santiam Hwy E best route ?	RISKS, stops, toilets, gas stations, clinics, fire brigade, police, etc.
13 - 14	Columbia River Flood Basalt	File:Columbia River Basalt Group 1943.JPG	File:Map of Oregon highlighting Clatsop County.svg	Truth Topics - Columbia Flood Basalts, a lot to share at 12+ days in..., consult Ophallus & gaia for more
14a	Saddle Mountain, Clatsop Co. - Gestaportland 77.8 miles - 20 mpg @ 2.33 USD / g = $ 19 USD	accommodation Gestaportland $ ?? USD	1 h 46 min (77.8 miles) via US-26 E and US-26 E Fastest route, the usual traffic	RISKS, stops, toilets, gas stations, clinics, fire brigade, police, etc.
15	Gestaportland	File:Portland&MtHood.jpg	File:Multnomah County Oregon Incorporated and Unincorporated areas Portland Highlighted.svg	Truth Topics - Gestaportland; ALL the lessons of the Columbia Truth Trail, virtual live show final at Eye am Eye Radio, aRISE. dinner, aHEAD. mentalversity sharing Ophallus & gaia for more
totals	1000 miles + 20 % = $ 150 USD in gas	aPLACE. acc. & aCORN. & aRISE. food totals $ 150 USD/d = $ 2250 USD	1000 miles - 1640 km - 14 h 45 min	Price = $ 200 USD / p / d ** = 3000 - shared profit = 6000 - 2400 / 2 = $ 1800 USD = 120 / d = $ 10 USD / h in the field... trust me
** 200 USD / person / day = 80 % of what New Jersey based Colombian aunt suggested for Más Muisca Colombia

Clackamas & Hood River Counties

• Mt. Hood
• Frustration Falls

• Frustration Falls

  Frustration Falls

Wheeler and Grant Counties

• John Day Fossil Beds National Monument
  • John Day Formation
  • Clarno Formation

• Clarno palisades

  Clarno palisades

• Park Boat Launch

  Park Boat Launch

• Clarno Unit map

  Clarno Unit map

• Painted Hills Unit map

  Painted Hills Unit map

• Painted Hills

  Painted Hills

Crooked County

• Coyote Butte Limestone - oldest -Early-Mid Permian- fossiliferous formation in Oregon

• Crooked River

  Crooked River

• Mt. Jefferson

  Mt. Jefferson

• Painted Hills

  Painted Hills

• Rock Formations

  Rock Formations

• more Gaia

  more Gaia

• Old Building

  Old Building

• Suplee Area Shack

  Suplee Area Shack

• Barn on Mill Creek Road

  Barn on Mill Creek Road

• Chimney Rock

  Chimney Rock

Marion County

• Silver Falls

Jefferson County

• Mt. Jefferson
• Billy Chinook Falls
• Cove Palisades State Park

• Billy Chinook Falls

  Billy Chinook Falls

• Bluffs over Lake Billy Chinook at Cove Palisades State Park

  Bluffs over Lake Billy Chinook at Cove Palisades State Park

• Native American petroglyph at Cove Palisades State Park

  Native American petroglyph at Cove Palisades State Park

• Warm Springs Indian Reservation

  Warm Springs Indian Reservation

• Mt. Jefferson

  Mt. Jefferson

• Wild Fungi

  Wild Fungi

• Windmill

  Windmill

• Peter Skene Ogden State Scenic Viewpoint

  Peter Skene Ogden State Scenic Viewpoint

Clatsop County

• Columbia River Basalt Group
• Saddle Mountain, Clatsop_County

"Surf Pines is an unincorporated community in Clatsop County, Oregon, United States. It is a private gated community, located three miles north of Gearhart, just west of U.S. Route 101. The community was created in 1944 by developer Barney Lucas. Lucas and his partners developed lots in the Surf Pines area and these were sold beginning in the 1950s. The Surf Pines Association was created in 1969 to help pay for the upkeep of roads. Properties were added to the community in the 1980s and 1990s, and security gates were added in 1990."

• Map of Columbia River Basalt Group

  Map of Columbia River Basalt Group

• Columbia River Basalt Group - Wanapum Basalt Frenchman Coulee, WA

  Columbia River Basalt Group - Wanapum Basalt Frenchman Coulee, WA

• Saddle Mountain

  Saddle Mountain

• Haystack Rock northwest face

  Haystack Rock northwest face

• Hug Point beach

  Hug Point beach

optional extras

Deschutes County

• oregonhikers.org - Flatiron Rock Loop Hike
• Alltrails trail description near Bend, Oregon
• Gaia GPS

The Oregon Badlands Wilderness was officially signed into law by President Barack Obama on March 30th, 2009. Most of the area is composed of a rugged lava landscape that resulted from a major “leak” in a lava tube known as the Badlands Volcano, a “rootless” shield volcano about 80,000 years old (The small crater is about a mile west of the Flatiron Rock Trailhead; the actual source of the lava flow is much farther to the south near the Newberry Volcano). The lava formations along this loop include cracks, pressure ridges (tumuli), and ropy blocks (pahoehoe). The sandy soils are the remains of ash deposits from the eruption of Mount Mazama 7,700 years ago. A key feature of this desert landscape are the many old-growth western juniper trees (Juniperus occidentalis), some over 1,000 years in age. This loop, mostly on sandy vehicle tracks, takes you to the three most prominent rock formations in the wilderness, each worth a scramble to the top for the all-encompassing views.

From the information kiosk, take the Flatiron Rock Trail on the right (An option is to go left on the Ancient Juniper Loop - see the Ancient Juniper Loop Hike - and rejoin the Flatiron Rock Trail later). You will be hiking parallel to Highway 20 for a short distance before veering left and continuing north in a landscape of western juniper with sagebrush, rabbitbrush, and bitterbrush along with clumps of fescue and wheatgrass. Behind you is the long low profile of Horse Ridge. About a mile from the trailhead, you'll reach the Flatiron Rock-Ancient Juniper Trail Junction, where you keep right.

In another 90 yards, pass the Flatiron Rock-Homestead Trail Junction. Continue straight here (If you do the loop, you will be returning to this junction), and hike gradually uphill, passing over a moss-covered lava pavement. Three aluminum diamonds on a tree will take you off-trail to an old well and the remains of a stockman’s shelter built into a juniper. The Flatiron Trail undulates and passes through a breach in a lava ridge to reach the Flatiron Rock-Castle Trail Junction. Flatiron Rock rears to your left, 45 feet above the surrounding landscape. You can follow a trail to enter the split in this tumulus, which runs for some distance. Scramble to the top of the lava ridge on either side to get views west and admire the snowy Cascades landscape from Mount Hood to Mount Bachelor, with Mount Jefferson and the Three Sisters forming the centerpiece. Looking immediately east, you can make out The Castle and Badlands Rock, your next destinations. Beyond them are West Butte and Bear Creek Butte, and to the south you’ll see the Horse Ridge volcano cluster.

From Flatiron Rock, take the Castle Trail eastward on a sandy jeep track. Pass the rather nondescript knoll of The Castle on the right, and reach a sign pointing the way to Badlands Rock. Go right at this sign, and follow a trail around to the Castle Gate. A footpath leads into the veritable maze of dry "moats", cracks, crannies, portholes, turrets, and overhangs that form the interior of The Castle. You’ll find packrat nests and middens under overhangs. Wax currant bushes find shelter in the passageways. Once again, there are the same expansive views if you reach a viewpoint. Once you’ve found your way out of The Castle, keep winding east on the trail until you reach Badlands Rock, a large, smooth-sided tumulus that looks like the shell of a giant clam.

A user trail leads up into the middle of Badlands Rock, where you’ll find a campfire circle. Find a perch on one of the lava ridges to take in the far-reaching views and have your lunch. Then descend to the Badlands Rock-Castle Trail Junction, and go right. Begin hiking south with the rounded prominence of West Butte to your left and Horse Ridge ahead. The track runs parallel to a fence line on your left. Eventually, pass through the fence at a pair of junipers and reach a more open area of sagebrush steppe with fewer, younger junipers. A fenced enclosure to your right protects a whitewashed cistern, which belonged to the early 20th century homestead that once stood near here. Come to the four-way Badlands Rock-Dry River-Homestead Trail Junction, and go right.

A shallow draw, the Badlands’ “dry river,” runs to the left, and a broad sagebrush plain opens up south of the trail. The sandy track swings right up past a low ridge and passes through a fence line. Enter an area of scattered junipers: the trees with red bark are usually more than 250 years old. The road braids in a couple of different places before you reach the Flatiron Rock-Homestead Trail Junction.

Go left and pass the Flatiron Rock-Ancient Juniper Trail Junction to continue south on the Flatiron Rock Trail facing Horse Ridge. In about a mile, the trail veers right to parallel Highway 20 and reach the Flatiron Rock Trailhead.

Fees, Regulations

• No bicycles
• Dogs on leash within 500’ of trailhead

• Flatiron-Castle Trail Hike

  Flatiron-Castle Trail Hike

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