Black Mountain (OR) Climber's Log
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| Redwic | Second OR CoHP Of The Day  Date Climbed: Sep 17, 2011 | |
| After summiting nearby Tower Mountain (Umatilla CoHP) a few hours earlier, I went to Black Mountain. After walking along the road for approximately 1/2-mile, I decided to leave the road and head straight up the slopes along animal paths. Using those tracks, common sense, and my GPS as guides, I reached the upper portion of FS-030 within 1/4-mile of the summit area. Then I continued beyond the communications facility to the true, open, rocky summit. There is a nice can register there. I descended open slopes similar to my ascent route, but more direct to the first road switchback down below. This shaved off a lot of time: Only one hour roundtrip, including stopping at the summit for register-signing and photos. Considering that the Gilliam CoHP does not currently have an SP page, I will continue the aftermath of this story... I continued west to Condon to get gasoline (before their one station closed for the day), then summited Zero Butte (Gilliam CoGPP), and then the Gilliam CoHP during sunset/early evening hours. I had planned to do more CoHP and CoGPP stuff the following day, but that was not meant to be: My front passenger-side tire blew out along Lone Rock Road shortly after leaving Lost Valley Road. What a horrible place and time for that to happen, and with my broken wrist not totally healed! At least I still had one great hand/arm and two strong legs to help with the lugnuts. With no place having tires on Sunday between Condon and Yakima, I drove (using my "donut" tire) to Biggs that night, slept in my car, and then met my wife in Goldendale. She drove me to Yakima to get a new tire put on the wheel, then we went back to Goldendale, and then we both drove home. What an adventure! It was not anything like I planned, but an adventure all the same. The worst part is that now I have to return to that general northern area of Oregon for things such as Wheeler County, Sherman County, etc. I am trying to limit my number of trips, not add to them! lol | |
| Posted Sep 19, 2011 10:35 am | ||
| calebEOC | Brief work interlude Date Climbed: Aug 28, 2011 | |
| Walked up the road from the gate, car broke down on the way over to do nearby Tower Mountain. | |
| Posted Aug 28, 2011 10:03 pm | ||
| Bob Bolton | Early COHP Date Climbed: Aug 18, 2002 | |
| Solo hiked this one within a month of starting to chase county highpoints. | |
| Posted Sep 18, 2010 12:33 am | ||
| Dundeel | Morrow the same Date Climbed: Jun 11, 2006 | |
| Black and blue ain't bad when it's a mountain and the sky! I came across a cow elk grazing during my hike. She must have felt two was a crowd, cause she trotted away. | |
| Posted Jul 10, 2008 8:29 pm | ||
| Dean | Cohp'ing hike Date Climbed: May 16, 2003 | |
| Most of the fun on this one is the drive getting there through country I had not seen before. I will take my wife back so she can get this one and enjoy the area. An easy cross country hike up but I took the road down. | |
| Posted Feb 28, 2007 4:11 pm | ||
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