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Jerry Sebestyen led a hike on Sunday, November 8 to the Metolius River.  It was a cat and mouse game of weather prediction but Jerry

CONC volunteers are continuing to stock the cross country shelters with firewood for the approaching winter.  A crew of willing and eager CONC members met

CONC President Jerry Sebestyen led six gung-ho hikers up Tam McArthur Rim on Sunday, November 1st.  It was a beautiful day, mild, with temperatures in

  On Sunday, Sunday, November 1st, CONC mainstay Linda Frost and two others hiked on some decommissioned trails south of the Crater Ditch trailhead. Linda

Not all those rusting cans out in the Badlands area are from local households.  On a recent hike in the sagebrush, Linda Frost turned up

As COVID cases increase this fall, hospitalizations are expected to peak in Oregon in mid-January.  I’ve been told the “second wave” during the 1918 flu

If you’ve ever skied or snowshoed from the Skyliner SnoPark to Tumalo Falls, you may have had a scary experience crossing the narrow bridge over

The Club had a great turnout of volunteers over the past couple of weeks to help get the firewood in at the Nordeen and Swampy

Leaves are starting to turn colors, temperatures are dropping, and the days are getting shorter. It’s that time of year when CONC volunteer activity picks

The wildfire season here in Oregon presents some unique challenges for hiking.   Exactly where and when to go present constantly changing equations, dependent on where

To go or not to go?  That was the question facing leader Roz O’Donoghue on Thursday, August  27th,  the morning of the proposed CONC hike

Some days on the trail remain etched in our minds long after the driving away from the parking lot.   Last Thursday, August 13th, six

There were no CONC group hikes again this past weekend, but adventure is still out there to be had.  Thursday July 23rd was a sunlit

On Monday, July 13, seven CONC members navigated by car caravan through several obscure Forest Service roads to find the less popular north trail head

Photos below are arranged “roughly” in alphabetical order, according to the common name identified by the photographer.  The captions are embedded in the photo by

Wednesday, July 1, a hardy group of CONCers hiked up and around Gray Butte, led by Roz.  They hiked via a combination of road, trail

Jerry Sebestyen led a hike up Black Crater off McKenzie Pass on Sunday, July 12.  The hike is about 7.5 miles with roughly 2,000 feet

After meeting at Lava Lake SnoPark on Tuesday, June 23 before 9:00 am our esteemed leader, Roz, made the critical decision (based on something Eileen

Winnie the Pooh and the Blustery Day is an old animated film where a wind storm hits the hundred acre wood.  Of course it makes

Lookout Mountain was perfect Sunday, June 21.  Best of all, it wasn’t crowded.  All the mountains were on display from the summit cliff, and the

Six people hiked from Ten Mile sno-park up the Ponderosa Rim Trail to Paulina Lake, led by Jerry Sebestyen on Sunday, June 21.  The falls

Susan Sullivan led four people and one exuberant dog participated in a hike up Vista Butte on Sunday, June 21. Pleasant temperatures, clear skies with

Linda Frost lead a group down the McKenzie River Trail from Clear Lake to Carmen Reservoir on Sunday June 14.  Out and back, the hike

Four hikers started Sunday, June 14 at the upper parking lot for a trek to the top of Lookout Mountain.  The day began chilly and

On Monday, June 1, Linda Frost led a small group on a lovely hike along a rushing creek to tranquil Pamelia Lake (off Highway 22,

Linda Frost led a small group of seven on a cool and windy hike to Chimney Rock overlooking the beautiful Crooked River on Sunday, June

The Otter Bench is a trail in the BLM Grassland above the Wild and Scenic section of the Crooked River.  On Sunday, May 31 Jerry

Linda Frost led five hikers about five miles around the side of Gray Butte from The Orchard and back on Sunday, May 24.  All the

Two years ago, a French historian – Mattias – stumbled upon a bag of P-47 fighter airplane parts for sale on Ebay.  He contacted the

Dennis led a hike on Sunday, March 22 from the Rickard Road trailhead which is at the northern edge of the Horse Ridge area just

Nine people plus one dog hiked from Dillon to Benham Falls Sunday, March 22. Everyone met informally at the parking lot, and walked with a

Sunday, March 15 was an organizational scramble.  Trying to heed best practices to keep the Coronavirus at bay, some folks met at the Safeway and