Take Your Adventure into Summer at Western Hiker

      Summer adventure begins when winter ends in the Wallowa Mountains.

Western Hiker (westernhiker.com) will take you into some of the most spectacular wild country in the world. Western Hiker specializes in base camp backpacking, drop camps for backpackers and mountaineers, and custom, guided mountain hikes in the Eagle Cap and Hells Canyon Wilderness areas of Northeast Oregon--over a million acres of adventure for all ages and abilities.

"Eagle Cap Wilderness is the premier backpacking country of Oregon. It covers 580 square miles of the Wallowa Mountains in the northeast corner of Oregon. Anywhere you look in the Wallowas you will find absolutely breathtaking mountain scenery. There are fifty-two named high lakes, of which nearly all have an abundance of trout just waiting to take your bait. Many miles of river drain from the high alpine mountains through densely forested canyons. These rivers also have many trout, and several have received National Wild River status for their 'outstandingly remarkable' characteristics. The abundance and diversity of animal life in the Wallowa Mountains is sensational."

    Fred Barstad, from the introduction
    Hiking Oregon's Eagle Cap Wilderness (1997)
    Reprinted courtesy of Globe Pequot Press