Powerline trail into Fish Lake

This trail is located up above Detroit Lake. On this trip my parents (well, inlaws... just so the next part doesn't sound wrong) and their daughter (my wife) left from Stayton mid morning with the plans of stopping at fish lake for lunch. It was a beautiful day and my bald yokahomas didn't even get me stuck. Here we are at Fish lake for lunch. It is a nice get away and would be fun to camp at some time.
The good ol' Cj5. Gets around as good as anything.


Most of the trail looks like this, with the occasional section littered with some larger rocks to play on. There are some good little areas at the entrance to the lake too.
There are a couple places near the lake that make me glad I drive a Jeep and not a fullsize.
This steep dusty climb gave my bald yokahomas a good little run for their money... Oh wait, I only paid for the wheels that they came on..

Hamaker Mountain

Took a little drive up to the top of Hamaker Mountain the other day. Planning to take the family up here when the snow is gone and its nice weather. It has a great view from the top that you can see a huge portion of the basin at almost 270 degrees. You see the other portion on the drive up too. There is some sort of observatory at the top that is kind of neat to see too. We didn't really go offroad much, but there are some trails up and around this area that might be fun to explore when it isn't so wet.