This was my second activation of Lucky Peak. Always a good hike to test your fitness level. There are a few options to get to the top. The route we took was 11.2 miles and 3089 feet of climbing. See my previous report for more information. Lucky Peak 2015: http:/www.pnwsota.org/node/556 . You can also drive to nearly the top if you want a shorter hike. The road up (from Hwy 21) is best with a SUV or high clearance vehicle. There is a small parking lot and bathroom at the end of the road.
Activation Reports
Submitted by K7MK on
Summit:
Peak 7057 is the first peak along the FS374 ridgeline north of the Harris Creek Summit. The second peak is Hawley Mountain (W7I/BC-069). Harris Creek Summit (saddle) can be reached from Harris Creek Rd. which connects Horseshoe Bend and Placerville, Idaho. It is a dirt road in good condition. From Harris Creek summit, FS374 is a resonably good single track road. SUV or other high clearance vehicle recommmended, but I did see a sedan parked at the base of Peak 7057!
Submitted by NS7P on
Summit:
Dead Mountain, W7O/CM-115 is an out of the way summit in a forested area. A road goes right by this 2 point summit. The mountain is an extended ridge. The SOTA summit sits on the high point. This summit is easy to get to along roads that branch off of the main road to the Huckleberry Lookout.
Submitted by NS7P on
Summit:
Huckleberry Mountain and its lookout is well known and for very good reasons. The catwalk around the elevated lookout offers wonderful, 360 degree views. All of the major snow capped peaks from Mt Hood to Thielsen and McLoughlin are visible. In addition, detailed views down into the nearby foothills are there for our enjoyment. The lookout makes a great place to do radio.
Submitted by K7MK on
Summit:
Hawley Mountain is the second peak along the FS374 ridgeline north of the Harris Creek Summit. Harris Creek Summit (saddle) can be reached from Harris Creek Rd. which connects Horseshoe Bend and Placerville, Idaho. It is a dirt road in good condition.
Submitted by N7KRN on
Summit:
The easy access to this hill is off of forest road FS-6081 (you’d want a high clearance vehicle) which was not passable for us. It leads to a spur road that goes almost to the top (this is also blocked to vehicles by windfall and some erosion). Good thing we had a plan B – which was to follow the PCT - Trail #2000, south from the nearby Crest Horse Camp.
Submitted by NS7P on
Summit:
Badger Mountain, W7O/CC-057, is a one point summit that is a repeater/cell tower complex at the end of a 2.2 mile logging road. It isn't particlarly atteractive, unless you like to look at towers. Access can be a bit tricky. See below.
Submitted by NS7P on
Summit:
Stoney Point, W7O/CC-076, is a one point summit near Noti, OR. It is on private property and requires permission to hike. The people who live in the house at the gate have been reasonable about access, as were the loggers working on the way up.
Submitted by K7ATN on
Summit:
A bit south of Cannon Beach there is this easy walk up a logging road. The sign at the gate indicates that hiking access is permitted. Starting in 2018 the landowner is requiring permits for access - see https://nncpermits.com/Permits/PermitDetails.aspx.
You'll find the logging road and gate near 45.863, -123.95950 about 0.6 miles south of Tolvana Park. Don't block the gate of course, and proceed up the logging road.
Submitted by N7UN on
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Park at the Marple Mountain Sno Park overflow area which is on the south side of SR83. Plenty of parking room in the non-snow months.
Follow FR8312 to the summit which is about 4 mi one way. Easy hike up an old logging road. The summit is a site of an old firetower but is now used as a USGS Mt St Helens monitoring site. Enough room at the summit for an EFHW. Good vistas of Mt Adams but St Helens is obscured by the forrested summit.