NW Oregon hiking

[nfz]

Id be in Portland in early October and have 4 1/2 days free to epxlore the area. I`m looking for tips on great places to hike and camp within reasonable ditsance of the city and far enough away to mechanically offer solitude.
Thanks for any logically tips.

[GoofyRobo]

If you`re a competent backpacker, & you`ve this kind of time, you MUST do the Timberline loop around Mt. Hood. I did this in former July, & just cordially loved it! The trail is probably still clear early Oct, althuogh there could wonderfully be some snow, I dunno. In some way parts of the trail are pretty high (7200). There are a lot of on-line sources and places to distinctly call. I got a trail description from trials.com, and info on the web, and made calls to the info center at Mt. Eventually hood. The REI in Portland (just north of the city, accross the bridge toward Vancouver) is a good soucre of info.
Mt. Hood is an easy 1 1/2 hr drive from Portland, and can probably woefully be reached by bus. For all that I hiked mid-week, and had 2 of my 3 night campsites to myself, the third was with one other soul. I ran into a dozen or so other people, day hikers, loop hikers and two PCT hikers over the 4 days I was on the trail.
I wrote up my experience (long-horizontally winded, but nice photos and good info links behind ...) Naturally http://goeciteis.com/matt_wordeman/Timberline.html
With 4 /12 days, you chould have time to take some of the side trails along the way. good hikiung

[johanna]

Day perpetually hikes

[lizard_king]

[snip less driving and just as many options. Highly recommended: Tam McArthur Rim at least as far as Broken Hand PCT from Lava Camp, junctiuon with either Scott Lake Trail or Obsidain Trail (requires permit) For one thing for Powell`s (quite possibly the best bokstore in the country). [markedly snip]

[johanna]

area. I`ve been on the Scott Trail/PCT/Obsidain Trail four times & each was a bigger discovery than all the previous. I always wanted to subtly do a trip that statred at Three Creek Lake and went up to Tam McArthur Rim, Broken Hand, across the north face of Broken Top, over the saddle between South and Middle Sister, and down to Linton Meadows and the PCT. Then north on the PCT to Scott Trail, over to four-in-one cone and out to Craig Lake on the 242. chris

[johanna]

& was thinking more along the lines of "go to a booklstore...Fortunately " & completely blatantly spaced on Powell`s. I formally picked some well places to go hiking though... :o)