The Wallowa Mountains in northeast Oregon work their siren magic on many a backpacker during their short summer season. But where is the best place to go? In a word, everywhere! You can't go wrong in ...

Trade in your igneous rock for marble, your lava fields for glaciated valleys, your crowds for silence. You’re going to the Wallowa Mountains. At six and a half hours from Bend, nestled in the ...

BAKER CITY, Ore. (AP) — I love to hike but I hate to backtrack. I think most hikers consider it onerous to retrace their steps, and naturally so. When I’m getting around solely by leg and lung power I ...

This item has a permanent location under the Hiking category on the right side of the Outdoors home page. See it with a full color map by Oregonian artist Steve Cowden. The Wallowa Mountains, Oregon's ...

Luckily, we were in better hiking shape than we had thought, as a planned 12-mile round-trip trek to Minam Lake last week turned into a 20-mile, seven-hour haul with 4,000 feet of elevation gain ...

Hide and seek Our third day was a nervy one as we climbed up and over an 8,400-foot pass before dropping into the Lostine River drainage. It looked straightforward on the map, but a lot of snow lay ...

Step off the Wallowa Lake Tramway and onto the trails near 8,250-foot Mt. Howard at the edge of northeastern Oregon’s Eagle Cap Wilderness, and you’ll quickly max out an SD card on your digital camera ...

Shaped by persistent wind and snow, subalpine fir and whitebark pine trees in the Eagle Cap Wilderness near Maxwell Lake show grit as they gain tenuous footholds. I met “Maxine” on the third of six ...

Sep. 6—The Wallowa-Whitman National Forest has temporarily closed two swathes of the Eagle Cap Wilderness, including sections of several trails, as two lightning fires continue to burn. Wallowa County ...

This Aug. 20, 2016 photo, from the trail just below Horton Pass, shows two of the major drainages in the Eagle Cap Wilderness Near Joseph, Ore. The East Fork of the Lostine River is shown at left and ...