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Oregon’s Timberline Trail around Mount Hood reopens after upgrades

Three hikers traveled the Timberline Trail around Mount Hood during September 2013. (Eric Gjonnes / Associated Press)
Three hikers traveled the Timberline Trail around Mount Hood during September 2013. (Eric Gjonnes / Associated Press)

TRAILS -- An iconic pathway around Oregon’s tallest mountain has fully reopened to the public.

Work on the Timberline Trail, a 41-mile circuit of Mount Hood, was completed last week, the Statesman Journal reports. One section of the trail was re-routed and reconnected after being closed by a debris flow in 2006.

Forest engineering specialists decided to relocate the affected section of the trail after determining that a permanent bridge at the original location wasn’t feasible.

Mount Hood National Forest officials said in a news release that hikers will once again be able to circumnavigate Mount Hood, traveling past waterfalls, meadows and forest along the way.



Rich Landers
Rich Landers joined The Spokesman-Review in 1977. He is the Outdoors editor for the Sports Department writing and photographing stories about hiking, hunting, fishing, boating, conservation, nature and wildlife and related topics.

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