It’s Fire Season

Fire season has kicked into gear. A fire located in the White River area of the Mt. Hood National Forest is causing road and trail closures adjacent to popular 44 Trails riding areas. You can get the latest details on White River fire closures on the InciWeb site.

At this time, popular trails like Knebal, High Prairie, 15 Mile, 8 Mile, Surveyor’s, etc are all open.

White River Fire Closures

The main areas impacted by fire closures include Crane Creek, Crane Prairie, Boulder Lake, Forest Creek, Hidden Meadows, Bonney Meadows. Bennett Pass is also effected. Anyone planning to head that way should re-evaluate their plans and read the detailed fire closures information.

The 44 Trails are still under snow at the moment, but we’ve set our calendar for 2019 trail work days.

First priority is to wrap up the Surveyor’s ridge reroute trail, and then we have more new projects in the works.

All work days are scheduled for 9am-2pm and require longs pants, gloves, helmets (hardhats) and tools. Specific details will post a couple weeks before each trail day.

Add these dates to your calendar with one easy click by downloading the calendar file below!

May 25 – Surveyor’s reroute
June 8 – TBD
June 29 – TBD
Sept 28 – TBD
Nov 2 – TBD

44 Trails Conditions Report 5/24/18
Singletrack Mountain bike trails on the Mt. Hood National Forest

The long weekend is here and conditions up in the 44 zone are great! Here is a list of trails that have been cleared in the last two weeks:

Surveyor’s Ride
8-Mile
Knebal SPrings
Bottle Prairie
Super Connector
Dog River
Lower Cooks Meadow

Snow is still patchy above 4500 feet, especially in shaded/north-facing areas. Please use good judgment and refrain from riding muddy trails. 

The Surveyor’s Ridge Reroute Continues!

Trail Work Day – Surveyor’s Ridge Reroute Project

REQUIRE EQUIPMENT:
Hardhats (bike helmets ok), long pants, work gloves and work boots, water. 

WHEN: 
Saturday, October 7, 2017 @ 9am – 2pm (plenty of time for a post-work-project ride)
Meet 9am @ Little John SnoPark on Highway 35
We’ll have coffee thanks to Dog River Coffee in HR and sign-in at the SnoPark and then move up to the work site as a group. Lunch will be provided by NY City Subs in Hood River.

PROJECT:
Handbuilt singletrack on Surveyor’s ridge re-route. We will be doing rough in and route trimming/clearing.

TOOLS:
Helmet/hardhat (bike helmets ok), long pants, gloves, and work boots required.
Hand tools only – Flat Shovels, McCleods,Metal Rakes (NO chainsaws please).

Here is the map showing the approximate route of the Surveyor’s Ridge trail project. The existing trail (yellow) will be disrupted by the new pipeline – the new route (blue) shows the tentative routes to connect with the SuperConnector (brown) near the 17 Road.