Welcome to Northwest Trek! Here you will find the hunting, fishing, adventure, and life stories of our travels throughout Alaska, Washington, Oregon, and California. We sincerely hope that you find Northwest Trek informative, entertaining, and inspirational. Oh, and by the way, do not be shy about leaving comments. We would love to hear from you!
// You don’t have to spend much time living in Oregon before the mystic of the Rogue River captures your imagination. We’ve floated Oregon’s Deschutes and Grand Rhonde and some of Alaska’s greatest rivers and now the time seemed right to finally do the Rogue. The mouth of the Rogue is at... (more...)
// Sandwiched between the froth at the untidy edge of the Pacific’s blue water and the uplands of the coastal rain forest of the central Oregon coast is the Oregon Dunes National Recreation Area. The Dunes are a unique band of sand and stunted Shore Pines that offers the OHV enthusiast some of... (more...)
// April 15 was the opening day for the 2011 Spring Turkey Season in Oregon. We had checked the weather forecast and while it didn’t promise great conditions it also didn’t predict a monsoon either. Monument, Oregon We loaded the camper and the 4 wheelers and headed over to the Umatilla... (more...)
Its hard to know what’s important in life. We don’t notice the small stuff and we’ve never prepared for the big stuff. Then there’s the stuff in between. Mostly I just bumble along without a clue. MAYBE THAT’S WHY I LIKE TO GEOCACHE. Geocaching is some of that in... (more...)
My spanking new Ford 150 and sixteen foot fishing boat were gone! My mind refused to believe what my eyes were seeing! It was Friday March 1st. My youngest son had the day off from school and me from work. The dawn had held great promise for a day of fishing. I had just hooked the boat up to the... (more...)
.22 Ruger RifleI recently purchased a .22 caliber Ruger, semi-auto rifle, model 10/22. I wanted an inexpensive, reliable 22 mostly for targets and some occasional ground squirrel population reduction. I’ve fired a couple thousand rounds through it . At a hundred feet it shoots a group of... (more...)
