Oregon Butte — Friday, Nov. 4, 2016

Eastern Washington > Palouse and Blue Mountains

Firstly, Not being hunters, we didn't even think to bring any orange clothing on a day hike in the Blues. Be sure if hiking in this region during hunting season to bring along some orange gear for safety! Drove up late on a Friday night and set up camp at Godman campground in the dark. Had a nice fire and woke up surprised to see a bit of snow on the side of the hill. Word of warning: We had no reception and only had the GPS coordinates of the trailhead from this site to lead us to the trailhead. When typed into google, the location that pops up appears to be on the middle of the three roads once the forest road 4608 splits. The correct choice is to take the right most of the three, which will lead you to teepee campground/trailhead. (this campground is discoverable in google maps, but google does not recognize the road to get there for your driving directions.) We ended up not actually hiking the Oregon Butte trail because of this. We parked shortly after the split and ended up following forest road 90 (the middle of the three roads) until it ended at a gate. Hiking past the gate, we followed a faded double track for ~2 miles until it turned into faint single-track. After another 0.5 miles along this the trail seemed to fade into nothing as it ended on the top of a ridge line. Ended up being a decent hike, but not the intended destination.