About Our Chapter

Monthly meeting alert! Our meetings are on the second Thursday of each month. Our current meeting place is Elmers Restaurant 1590 NE Burnside Gresham, OR. Social hour starts at 6 p.m. and the business meeting runs 7 to 8 pm. Everyone and anyone is welcome to join our meeting!

Mt. Hood Chapter runs a good mix of speakers, member discussions, work parties, rides, and camp-outs. A vital role is an attendance at public agency meetings. This includes submitting comments to public agencies on matters related to equestrian use in the Zigzag, Hood River, and Barlow Ranger Districts, and in the Columbia River Gorge National Scenic Area, all located in the Mt. Hood National Forest. We also participate in the Bureau of Land Management and Oregon State Parks planning meetings.

Members join together for fun at our annual Play Day in March, the Deschutes River Ride, Corncob Ranch and Spray Rodeo, annual campout, day rides, and our laughter-filled Christmas Party.

Mt. Hood Chapter horse crews open wilderness trails using crosscut saws in the Salmon-Huckleberry Wilderness. For non-saw people, there is always brush to cut or water bars to clean.

Chapter Officers

  • Chapter Chair: Mary Blankevoort  MtHood@oregonequestriantrails.org
  • Vice Chair: Lynn Larsen
  • Field Services Reps: Barb Adams & Sue Gillilan
  • Secretary: Heather Nelson
  • Treasurer: Sara Faulkner

Volunteer Positions

  • Membership, Facebook & Website: Barb Adams, Wendy Kerns, Lauri Malone, Pam and Lot Scholz, Mickey Yeager
  • Nice Naggers: Larry Wilson, Sara Faulkner, Linda Lesowske, Bunny Peschke, Heather Nelson, Leslie Elbertson, Suzanne Cathey
  • Quartermaster: Colene Everett
  • Education programs: Wendy Kerns

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  • A BIG project this year was the construction of the connector trail from the new Douglas trailhead, Salmon-Huckleberry Wilderness.  At the request of our chapter, Trailkeepers of Oregon agreed to take on this project.  Equestrians from OET and BCH joined in.   Zigzag Ranger District funded the track hoe work and design of the trail.
  • In 2013 Mt. Hood and North Valley built two, two-stall corrals at Herman Creek Campground and reclaimed a place to park horse trailers at the Herman Creek Trailhead.  You can use this trailhead for a quick connection to the Pacific Crest Trail.
  • In 2010 Mt. Hood and North Valley Chapters finished 11 sites with 30 stalls at Clackamas Lake Campground, located close to Timothy Lake and by Clackamas Lake.  The corral sites are on the national reservation system. You can ride the Pacific Crest Trail north or south, or take a beautiful ride around Timothy Lake.  With Joe Graham Horse Camp and Clackamas Campground Corrals there is an opportunity for a large group equestrian campout.

Whether you ride in a parade, help clear trails, lead a day ride, or pick your favorite camp for a campout, you can find your horsey groove with Mt. Hood.  You are always welcome to attend our meetings held on the second Thursday, M & M Restaurant, 137 Main Street in Gresham. The food is good, and we have a lot of fun. Dinner is 6 p.m. (order from menu) and the meeting time is 7-8 p.m. For more information email mthood@oregonequestriantrails.org.

Chapter Photos

Food, Fun and Sun at our annual Mt Hood Chapter Potluck. July ’06
“Cowboys go Boating” Olallie Lake near Triangle Horse Camp after a day of working on trails.
This beautiful paintbrush-filled meadow is near Santiam Lake in the Mt. Jefferson Wilderness. Our chapter was on a camp-out at Big Meadows Horse Camp. It’s a terrific area to ride with lots of lakes and mountain scenery.
A big project for 2007 was the Sandy River Delta planning with the Forest Service and the work parties to pull old fencelines, take out briars, reclaim trails and pick-up litter. The SRD is a good all-year riding area that is close to home. Work will continue in 2008 and a new parking lot is in the works.
Eagle Creek in the Salmon-Huckleberry Wilderness gets a log-out and other annual maintenance work. Due to the rain we ate lunch when we got back to the trailhead.
Mt. Hood Chapter volunteers gather each year at Douglas Trailhead, by the Salmon-Huckleberry Wilderness, to get the trailhead shaped up and to clear adjoining trails. There is a lot of horse trailer parking and both canyon and ridge trails to ride.
Volunteers install a hitching post near the “Bird Blind” at the Sandy River Delta in 2009.
Volunteers prepare to put up trail signs at the Sandy River Delta.
A volunteer with a tractor helps us put stone on a muddy section of the Meadow Trail.
Our OET crew puts briar “bumpouts” on the Meadow Trail at the Sandy River Delta.
May 22 while driving up to do our annual clean-up at Douglas Trailhead we discovered that Mother Nature had given us six inches of snow overnight. After a fun snowball fight we headed home.
Jeff Miller brought his trackhoe so we could get the huge posts into the ground.  This photo was at the 2009 work party at Clackamas Lake Campground.
Volunteers and the Forest Service put in the sign for the Clackamas Campground corrals in preparation for the Dedication Ceremony July 24, 2010.

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