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Zigzag River on the Pioneer Bridle Trail, Mount Hood National Forest 04/03/2016
"Pioneer Bridle Trail is an 8-mile trail that takes you from the town of Government Camp (starting at Glacier View Trailhead) to nearly the town of Rhododendron. The trail follows the Barlow Road - part of the Oregon Trail followed by pioneers in wagon trains coming to Oregon and wanting to avoid rafting their wagons down the Columbia. The upper part of the trail drops down Laurel Hill, which the pioneers noted in their diaries - as the most difficult part of the route from Missouri. They had to lower their wagons with ropes tied around trees because it was so steep." www.mtbproject.com
"Located twenty miles east of the city of Portland, Oregon and the northern Willamette River valley, the Mt. Hood National Forest extends south from the strikingly beautiful Columbia River Gorge across more than a million miles of forested mountains, lakes and streams, and, of course, iconic Mt. Hood." www.fs.usda.gov
Zigzag River on the Pioneer Bridle Trail, Mount Hood National Forest 04/03/2016
"Pioneer Bridle Trail is an 8-mile trail that takes you from the town of Government Camp (starting at Glacier View Trailhead) to nearly the town of Rhododendron. The trail follows the Barlow Road - part of the Oregon Trail followed by pioneers in wagon trains coming to Oregon and wanting to avoid rafting their wagons down the Columbia. The upper part of the trail drops down Laurel Hill, which the pioneers noted in their diaries - as the most difficult part of the route from Missouri. They had to lower their wagons with ropes tied around trees because it was so steep." www.mtbproject.com
"Located twenty miles east of the city of Portland, Oregon and the northern Willamette River valley, the Mt. Hood National Forest extends south from the strikingly beautiful Columbia River Gorge across more than a million miles of forested mountains, lakes and streams, and, of course, iconic Mt. Hood." www.fs.usda.gov