Shangri La #COUGAR-E1,Surprise Creek #COUGAR-E2,Red Cedars #COUGAR-E12,Precipice Top #COUGAR-E-13,No Name #COUGAR-E-8,Protector Trail #COUGAR-E-9,Tibbets Marsh Trail #COUGAR-N-9

After Saturday chores of washing floors and cleaning the house and prior to picking up my wife from a trip to Eugene to see our daughter, I wanted to do a short hike on some new trails. The new map of Cougar Mt. showed some trails in the South East corner of the park of which I had heard about but not hiked so off to AA Peak and an adventure.

The hike started on trails with which I am familiar, Shangri La and Surprise Creek, but finding the ""Red Cedars Trail"" was an effort. I am not sure I was on it in fact but it was the only trail that fit the map location ""trail"" in this case being a geneorus use of this term. It was more like a game trail or boot path and one I would not recommend unless getting lost in brush is what you want.

I did manage to get the Big Tree Ridge Trail junction, more by luck than anything else and then back to Surpise Creek and the car via known routes.

Some of the other ""new"" trails in this group look much better in terms of use and repair.