Up above our heads they had already strung our Treeboats, our guest room for the night. We met up with our guides, Damien and Ben, and tip-toed across slick river rocks to our basecamp, just feet from the clear pools of Opal Creek. The goal, beyond simply sleeping in the top of a tree, was to find a way to help love this special place to life.įor the weekend warriors who want to get after it and climb a tree, please don’t go it alone. Ascend alongside folks who know how to ascend with the proper care, respect, and technical skill, such as Expedition Old Growth. It’s one of those special places that one might fear is at risk of being overrun and loved to death. And on any given sunny day the trail is teeming with foot traffic. It’s a relatively easy 3-mile hike into Jawbone Flats. The heart of Opal Creek is Jawbone Flats, a rejuvenated historic mining outpost in the midst of 35,000-acres of ancient forest watershed. Opal Creek Wilderness is about an hour east of Salem. I was going to spend the night among giants, some as old as 1,000 years. And so plans were made to spend my birthday climbing a big tree in an ancient grove of Douglas Fir, Western Red Cedar and Western Hemlock. Thanks to the Opal Creek Ancient Forest Center, Expedition Old Growth was granted the opportunity to guide us to the top of an old growth tree. It was through Expedition Old Growth that we would be making this dream come true in one of the most recently protected Oregon treasures, the Opal Creek Wilderness. He introduced me to Damien Carré, owner-operator of Oregon Tree Care and Expedition Old Growth. He had served some tree-time working with the nonprofit Ascending the Giants and had met some talented arborists. This past year I shared my treetop dreams with John. Chance of precipitation 40 percent.Ever since I read Richard Preston’s The Wild Trees I’ve had it in my head to somehow find myself up inside the tangled towers of a forest canopy and add “sleep in a treetop” to my very short bucket list. East southeast wind to 8 MPH, gusting to 14 MPH. Chance of precipitation 50 percent.ĭay: Mostly cloudy with scattered snow showers. Night: Mostly cloudy with scattered snow showers. Southeast wind to 10 MPH, gusting to 17 MPH.ĭay: Mostly cloudy. Chance of precipitation 100 percent.ĭay: Mostly cloudy with scattered snow showers. South southwest wind to 10 MPH, gusting to 16 MPH. South southwest wind 6 to 12 MPH, gusting to 20 MPH. Chance of precipitation 80 percent.ĭay: Mostly cloudy with rain and snow. West southwest wind to 13 MPH, gusting to 21 MPH. Night: Mostly cloudy with rain and snow likely. West wind 9 to 14 MPH, gusting to 28 MPH. New precipitation amounts of 2 inches possible.ĭay: Mostly cloudy with heavy rain and snow. Windy, with a southwest wind 15 to 23 MPH, gusting to 46 MPH. New precipitation amounts of 2 inches possible. Windy, with a southwest wind 15 to 22 MPH, gusting to 46 MPH. ![]() New snow accumulation of less than half an inch possible.ĭay: Cloudy with rain. South southwest wind 8 to 15 MPH, gusting to 29 MPH. Night: Cloudy with chance of rain and snow. South southeast wind to 6 MPH, gusting to 14 MPH. Why You Should Check The Local Weather Before Planning Your Dayĭay: Cloudy.How to Use the Tide Schedule to Your Advantage.The Surprising Way Weather Affects Your Mood.
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