Field Reports
route launches, stewardship campouts, events, and other musings.
April 23rd, 2025: Loowit Tier Launch
In less than two weeks we’ll release the first tier of the Orogenesis route publicly: Packwood Washington to the Columbia River Gorge. We’ll be leading a group ride in early August on the Klickitat Sisters Trail, but the other 180 miles are excellent as well. Are you making plans to ride the Loowit Tier this summer?
Recap: 4th Annual Cispus Collaborative Chainsaw Training
The Cispus Collaborative Chainsaw Training wrapped up on Sunday in Randle—cumulatively we've certified more than 100 sawyers over the past four years at this event. But even more impressively was the amount of knowledge present over the weekend.
Klickitat Sisters—an ancient upcountry portal
The Klickitat Sisters Trail is an ancient upcountry portal into another way of life. There are stories from oral tradition and eyewitness accounts that for millennia the people of the Yakima, Klickitat, and Columbia River have passed through these ridges and meadows as trade routes and during annual huckleberry harvests. Its reawakening provides a trove of treasures for those who seek.
Recap: Cispus Chainsaw Collaborative
Earlier this month we had the pleasure of traveling to Randle, WA for the 3rd annual Cispus Chainsaw Collaborative. Over three days, students learned the basics of saw maintenance, appropriate safety gear, the physics of binds, hazards, and of course got plenty of trigger time too.
Klickitat Sisters Stewardship
Last year, a rockstar group met high above Packwood and logged out about half of the 17 miles of the Klickitat Sisters Trail, an ancient indigenous trading route between the Klickitat and Cowlitz people. Last weekend we returned to finish the job.