Hwy 224 finally opens May1st!

[EHJ]

It's been nearly 2 years now.

Looking forward to see some favorite shooting spots.

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[pdx1]

A lot of the area is closed to target shooting, per the sign on the road

 

[EHJ]

A lot of the area is closed to target shooting, per the sign on the road

Well ****

 

[pdx1]

Lots of good fishing up there too, I'm happy to see it reopen. Hopefully they dont shut it down to shooting like memaloose....... 1 person really can ruin it for everyone

 

[bionic knees]

https://www.opb.org/video/2021/04/13/clackamas-river-flyover/

it is not going to be the same upriver, things are most likely to
be greening up some by now. lots and lots of trees have been cut down and hauled out. I also heard the road will be closed at Ripplebrook.

 

[orygun]

We rode LaDee Flat Sunday. We came in the "back way" through a bunch of snow to find the road up from 224 had been reopened. Looked really bizarre coming down to Promontory with the landscape barren of trees.

 

[Mikej]

A BIG "THANKS FOR NOTHING" to the dirt bags in Salem that let that little tiny fire burn for two weeks before those freak east winds blew it up into the mess you see up there. Criminal, how the media won't pick that up and talk about it much.
And thanks for nothing for not calling in one of those hug flying tankers to help those communities. I guess it's easier for that brown thing in Salem to lay under her rock and tell herself insurance will bring those folk's lives back to where it was.
I tried to find the info on that remote lightning started fire but can't.
You can go to google maps/earth and look at a satellite view and see the ruined forest, and then zoom to street views and see what it looked like before the fire.

 

[EHJ]

A BIG "THANKS FOR NOTHING" to the dirt bags in Salem that let that little tiny fire burn for two weeks before those freak east winds blew it up into the mess you see up there. Criminal, how the media won't pick that up and talk about it much.
And thanks for nothing for not calling in one of those hug flying tankers to help those communities. I guess it's easier for that brown thing in Salem to lay under her rock and tell herself insurance will bring those folk's lives back to where it was.
I tried to find the info on that remote lightning started fire but can't.
You can go to google maps/earth and look at a satellite view and see the ruined forest, and then zoom to street views and see what it looked like before the fire.

A LOT of contract tree workers quit and/or got replaced when they first started revealing that they were being ordered to take waaaay too many trees for what their contracts stated as appropriate. Seems they took full advantage of having no witnesses to the actual work prescribed.
It was a full on tree-rape-for-cash.

 

[Mikej]

A LOT of contract tree workers quit and/or got replaced when they first started revealing that they were being ordered to take waaaay too many trees for what their contracts stated as appropriate. Seems they took full advantage of having no witnesses to the actual work prescribed.
It was a full on tree-rape-for-cash.

What? In Oregon? But then it's "National forest"? And at the time was under President Trump. But then, not much would surprise me these days. I spent plenty of time up around there in the past. If it happens that I never go back up there again. I'll always remember the good times had.

 

[3MTA3]

Expecting heavy traffic at first so I'm going to give it a while before I head on up.

 

[Stomper]

We rode LaDee Flat Sunday. We came in the "back way" through a bunch of snow to find the road up from 224 had been reopened. Looked really bizarre coming down to Promontory with the landscape barren of trees.

I was "Jeeping" in the Rubicon up there about 3 weeks ago, good times!

Yes, totally bizarre being all barren down that hillside! I remember going up there in the 80's (before the OHV trails were a "thing") to target shoot.

 

[41mag]

I worked at Ripplebrook Ranger Station a couple summers in the 70s. Lots of memories.