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Hiking Oregon Year-end wrap up

2022 Waterfalls

The 2022 hiking season wound up being full of waterfalls. That wasn’t necessarily the plan at the beginning of the year but when Heather’s season was cut short I wound up doing three waterfall filled hikes on top of several waterfall hikes we’d done earlier in the year. By the end of the year we’d seen 50+ named waterfalls and 20 unnamed cascades. That seems like enough to warrant a post so here are the waterfalls and cascades that we saw throughout the year.

Starting with the unnamed cascades were a pair of small drops near the Nehalem Divide Railroad Tunnel.
Small falls near the Nehalem Divide Railroad Tunnel

Falls on the East Fork Nehalem River

On that same hike we visited a seasonal fall just off the Crown Zellerbach Trail.
Season fall along the CZ Trail

In April we saw a series of cascades along Silvas Creek from the Klickitat Trail
Falls on Silvas Creek

Falls on Silvas Creek

During a June hike to Black Hole Falls we passed three unnamed cascades on the North Fork Siouxon Trail.
Small cascade along the North Fork Siouxon Trail

Small fall on an unnamed creek

Waterfall on an unnamed creek

The following week we passed a nice little fall on the North Umpqua River Trail heading to Lemolo Falls.
Waterfall along the North Umpqua River

Our next notable unnamed cascade was below Devil’s Punchbowl in the Siskiyou Wilderness which we visited on July 2nd.
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On July 12th we encountered an impressive split cascade in the Eagle Cap Wilderness on the way to Burger Pass along the Buck Creek Trail.
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In August we saw a few unnamed falls/cascades starting with a little slide falls along Hemlock Creek.
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IMG_9353Unnamed waterfall along Riley Creek in the Mt. Adams Wilderness

IMG_9973Unnamed waterfall below East Boulder Lake in the Trinity Alps Wilderness.

A September hike along Union Creek produced several unnamed cascades.
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My October waterfalls hikes produced two unnamed cascades.
IMG_3330Cascade on Wahkeena Creek.

IMG_4244Small cascade along the North Fork Silver Creek.

The final unnamed cascade came on a chilly November hike along the Eagle Creek Trail beyond Seven Mile Falls.
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Now for the named waterfalls (All names come from the Northwest Waterfall Survey.)
Mosier Creek FallsMosier Creek Falls (post)

Black Hole FallsBlack Hole Falls (post)

Highway 138 Waterfalls (post)
Susan Creek FallsSusan Creek Falls

Toketee FallsToketee Falls

Surprise FallsSurprise Falls

Columnar FallsColumnar Falls

Watson FallsWatson Falls

Warm Springs FallsWarm Springs Falls

Lemolo FallsLemolo Falls

Alsea Falls Recreation Area (post)
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IMG_8601Green Peak Falls

Hemlock Creek/Lake (post)
IMG_8749Yasko Falls

IMG_8773Hemlock Falls

Tributary FallsTributary Falls

Middle Hemlock FallsMiddle Hemlock Falls

Clover FallsClover Falls

Grotto FallsGrotto Falls

Wolf Creek and Fall Creek Falls (post)

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IMG_9111Upper tier of Wolf Creek Falls

IMG_9128Lower tier of Wolf Creek Falls

South Umpqua FallsSouth Umpqua Falls (post)

20220920_070421Union Creek Falls (post)

IMG_2910Chitwood Creek Falls

Larch Mountain Trail (post)
IMG_3043Multnomah Falls

IMG_3093Lower Dutchman Falls

IMG_3098Upper Dutchman Falls

IMG_3108Wiesendanger Falls

IMG_3112Ecola Falls

IMG_3326Fairy Falls

IMG_3357Wahkeena Falls

Silver Falls Perimeter Loop (post)
IMG_4201Upper North Falls

IMG_4230North Falls

IMG_4254Twin Falls

IMG_4264Winter Falls

IMG_4282Middle North Falls

IMG_4301Drake Falls

IMG_4313Double Falls

IMG_4327Lower North Falls

IMG_4354Lower South Falls

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Eagle Creek Trail (post)
IMG_4443Sorenson Falls

IMG_4459Metlako Falls

IMG_4470Lower Punchbowl Falls

IMG_4479Punchbowl Falls

IMG_4520Loowit Falls

IMG_4551Skoonichuck Falls

Four Mile FallsFour Mile Falls

IMG_4582Tenas Falls

IMG_4612Wy’East Falls

IMG_4644Grand Union Falls

IMG_4770Tunnel Falls

IMG_4685Twister Falls

IMG_4696Seven Mile Falls