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Silver Falls – Hiking

September 25, 2008 Great Trip '08, Photography, Waterfalls No comments , , , , ,

Base of Middle North Falls.

Base of Middle North Falls.

The odometer should be taken with a grain of salt or two… The loop that I hiked was listed as 8.7 miles.  The canyon trail was, well, in a canyon and the GPS doesn’t like canyon walls.  The other thing the GPS doesn’t like is rain.  I’ll get back to that.

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Burney Falls to Silver Falls

September 23, 2008 Great Trip '08 No comments , , ,

silverfallscabin

Last night I packed up everything that wasn’t in the tent – I knew I had a good drive tomorrow to do.  Set my phone with an 8 am alarm and put it in airplane mode so that it battery drain would be as low as possible.  Woke up at 8, got up at 8:15 and took everything out of the tent and packed it away.  When taking it down I found that poles first then clips would work better… well, next time.  I was on the road at 9:15 with only a short pause to get the inverter to work and charge my phone.

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