Cascade Volcanoes • Entered by Laurie Kerr on November 15, 2020
Solitude Monitoring
October 17, 2020
Participants and Hours
| Pre Planning hours | 8 |
| Post Admin hours | |
| Activity Hours | 8 |
| Participants | 2 |
| Total Hours | 24 |
Key Issue: Doesn’t apply
Activity Type: Stewardship (monitoring, sampling, planting, etc.)
Key Partners: National Wilderness Stewardship Alliance/West Mount Hood Ranger Dist
Landscape/area: Mark O. Hatfield Wilderness (65420 acres)
Measurable Outcomes
Outcome 1: Trail/land monitored (10 miles)
Short Description of Activity
Solitude Monitoring Cedar Swamp and North Lake areas
Reflection/Evaluation
We did North Lake in the morning and Cedar Swamp in the afternoon. We saw no one on North Lake trails and 4 people and 2 dogs on Cedar Swamp, although we didn’t get all the way down to where it meets Herman Creek trail so we didn’t monitor any campsites except the top one by the cabin which was vacant. A little research revealed that the cabin was a WWII signal site (perhaps for random Japanese aircraft). We bailed on doing Defiance on Sunday due to rain, fog, and wind. We were disappointed and were looking forward to another hike but it would have been very unpleasant up there and it’s unlikely we would have seen many people there.
Photos/Uploads
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Photo Captions
1-Kathleen Worley aka “drowned rat” at WWII cabin