Rogers Creek NW

Update 3/22/25: The road to Diamond Mill at Jones Creek is gated for logging. This may limit best access to the Rogers Creek area from Hwy 6. A short tributary in the upper headwaters of Rogers Creek - about 1.5hrs from Portland. Not a bad one for the coast range with four rappels and a creek relatively free of brush. Approach and exit are pretty easy/straightforward. It's even faster with a shuttle. Best in the spring when it has water. Likely reduces to a trickle come May/June.

Follow an old logging track down the northwest side of the ridge to drop into the creek a short distance above R1.

Use caution as the creek is excessively slippery.

Head downstream a short distance until the western tributary of Rogers Creek merges on the right. A short distance further, cross the creek to the south side and climb up into an old clearcut. Make your way up to an old track that makes a rising traverse up to the nose of the ridge. Once on the nose, break right and up to a track top the ridge and follow it to the road.