BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 METHOD:PUBLISH CALSCALE:GREGORIAN PRODID:-//WordPress - MECv7.33.0//EN X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://trailsclub.org/ X-WR-CALNAME:Trails Club of Oregon X-WR-CALDESC:Dedicated to enjoying and preserving the great outdoors X-WR-TIMEZONE:America/Vancouver BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Vancouver X-LIC-LOCATION:America/Vancouver BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20260308T030000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=03;BYDAY=2SU END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:MST DTSTART:20261101T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=11;BYDAY=1SU END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H X-MS-OLK-FORCEINSPECTOROPEN:TRUE BEGIN:VEVENT CLASS:PUBLIC UID:MEC-b9cc29ff23a908aaf7f741dabbe5b0f6@trailsclub.org DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20260629T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20260702T000000 DTSTAMP:20260407T114349Z CREATED:20260407 LAST-MODIFIED:20260407 PRIORITY:5 SEQUENCE:1 TRANSP:OPAQUE SUMMARY:Obsidian/Scott Loop Backpack DESCRIPTION:This will be a three-day, two night adventure hiking through the striking volcanic landscape of the northern Three Sisters Wilderness. The 17-mile loop can certainly be done as a single-night outing, but a more relaxed pace should allow us extra time for exploration of some of the area’s most remarkable features – Four-in-One Cone, Collier Cone, Sawyer Bar, Arrowhead Lake, and Obsidian Falls, to name a few.\nOn Day One, we’ll drive 3-4 hours down to the Obsidian TH near McKenzie Pass, then hike approximately 6 miles along the Scott Trail and PCT to Minnie Scott Spring, for our first camp. On Day Two we’ll move the camp 4 miles to Arrowhead Lake and spend the afternoon exploring. Day Three will be a return to the car via the Obsidian Trail, approximately 6 miles, and the drive home.\nSince this has been a year of unusually low snowfall in the mountains, and promises to be a very warm El Nino summer, my hope is that an early season backpack will avoid some of the wildfire danger and hottest temperatures of late summer. Be prepared for some mosquitoes, however, even though the campsites have been chosen to (hopefully!) avoid the worst areas where they like to hang out.\nParticipants should be self-sufficient with basic backpacking skills. Sturdy boots will be encouraged, as there are areas of sharp obsidian glass underfoot, which can damage regular shoe soles.\nFor more information and to sign up for the backpack, contact Tom Thrall at:  \n \n URL:https://trailsclub.org/events/obsidian-scott-loop-backpack/ ORGANIZER;CN=Tom Thrall:MAILTO:tom_thrall@hotmail.com CATEGORIES:Backpack END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR