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Zach Urness has been an outdoors reporter in Oregon for 15 years and is host of the Explore Oregon Podcast. Urness is the author of “Best Hikes with Kids: Oregon” and “Hiking Southern Oregon.”
Clear Lake is a mountain lake 86 mi (138 km) northeast of Eugene, Oregon, United States in Linn County. It has two main bodies connected by a bottleneck. The lake is primarily fed by snow runoff from nearby Mount Washington and the surrounding areas. The runoff filters through caverns for more than 20 years before emptying into Clear Lake.
The actual hike begins on a wide and dusty trail, leading 0.2 miles through sage and juniper to the mouth of the first and most impressive part of the crack. ... either from icy snow or the climbs ...
The trailhead for Todd Trail #34 is located at the south end of the lake. Todd Trail connects to Soda Creek Trail #11 from Sparks Lake. It then joins Broken Top Trail #10 running along the south side of Broken Top to Green Lakes Trail #17, which leads north to the Green Lakes at the base of the South Sister.
Oregon was among the many western states that had begun establishing snow courses and taking snow surveys throughout their mountain ranges based on the pioneering work of Dr. James E. Church on Mount Rose near Reno, Nevada. The station at Aneroid Lake was installed in 1925 with records being kept after 1928. [39]
An alternate trail was built, which now forms a loop with the original trail. The original trail was rebuilt in 1993. [ 4 ] [ 16 ] Overall, the original trail is approximately 1.5 miles (2.4 km) long, while the alternate trail is 2 miles (3.2 km) long, for a round trip of 5.5 miles (8.9 km).
In 1996, the park was one of over 50 parks that the Oregon Parks and Recreation Department proposed closing due to a state budget deficit that reduced funding for the department. [5] However, Bald Peak and the other parks remained open after political pressure forced the department to reconsider their plans.
The Oregon Desert Trail is a network [1] of trails, cross country travel and two-track dirt roads across the Oregon High Desert. The trail is approximately 750 miles long, [ 2 ] with termini located near Bend, Oregon, and near the Idaho border at Lake Owyhee State Park .