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Mount Gauldy, OR | Dec 2024

Summit: 
W7O/NC-035

Mount Gauldy is an easy summit near Hebo Oregon
It is either a drive up or a road walk of at most 3.5mi RT and 600ft elevation gain.

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Red Mountain

Summit: 
W7W/LC-036

The Gate has moved back to 45.90847, -121.81117. See this write up for the current access:

http://www.pnwsota.org/node/370

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Round Top, OR | Sep 2024

Summit: 
W7O/NE-110

Hike: 2 miles RT Bushwhack

Elevation Gain: 500 feet

There are eight Round Tops in Oregon although two of them add another word to the name. This one is a few miles north and a bit east of John Day Oregon as the radio signal flies.

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5641 (West Long Creek Mtn), OR | Sept 24

Summit: 
W7O/NE-225

Hike RT 0 – 2 miles

Elevation Gain 0 - 129 feet

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Mount Emily, OR | Sep 2024

Summit: 
W7O/NE-090

Mount Emily is a six point summit north of La Grande Oregon. It is a complete drive up, but requires AWD and moderate ground clearance to get there. The road out of La Grande quickly turns to gravel and gets steep (17% according to the warning sign). It stays good gravel for just short of 10 miles and then gets a bit rough. The directions given by Google Maps are accurate except for one place where it wants you to cut the switchback (see below).

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Taylor Butte, OR | Aug 24

Summit: 
W7O/CE-202

 

Taylor Butte is on public land, but the road referred to in the previous write ups is now gated, locked and posted. Access still possible in theory, but not via road. I did not have time or information at the gate to figure an alternate route.

 

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Dean Mountain, OR | Aug 2024

Summit: 
W7O/CC-059

Dean Mountain, also labeled on some maps "Dear Mountain", as in Dear Mountain it's been such a long time, sorry I haven't written.

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4860 OR | Jul 2024

Summit: 
W7O/CN-088

6.5 miles RT with 1100 feet of elevation gain from the pavement. I suggest this is where you start. None of the track is steep, but there are some steeple chase logs and at one point the road was so over grown we lost it.

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2860 OR | June 2024

Summit: 
W7O/CM-147

This summit is a complete Priusable drive up. The actual summit is a few hundred feet distant with about 40 feet of gain, so the road is in the activation zone. Getting to the top is an easy bushwhack through recently logged open forest. To get there find the Mckenzie River and highway 126 whch runs along it.

Turn off of the highway 126 at 44.2371, -122.05542 onto NF-2654 which is paved for a while.

Take a right at 44.2502, -122.0607 to cross Deer Creek.

Take another right onto NF-2655 at 44.2554, -122.0577.

Final right at 44.2584, -122.05348 onto 616.