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As a man without wheels I rely on friends to take me out on waterfall research excursions. I would be joined on this expedition by my best friend, housemate, and fellow waterfall enthusiast, Kassidy. She also assembled a “Coalition of the Willing” that would generously provide lodging for the trip. She put hours of work and research into coming up with an itinerary that would optimize my time out there. So here we go….Central Oregon!įirst and foremost, massive, heaping piles of thanks go to Kristine McConnell from the Central Oregon Visitors Association for putting this trip together. It seemed like a good idea to do a blog post about some of the major “research” trips I take for the guidebook. For me, this is the gig I’d always hoped to land when I left the information technology field a few years ago, and it is un-flipping believable. This book will be an amazing amount of work, but imagine I’m getting paid to travel the state and hike to waterfalls. Lucky for me the state of Oregon is chock-full of, and I mean chock-full of people that want to help me make this guidebook: Visitors Associations, hotels, resorts, restaurants, Chambers of Commerce, helpful locals, etc, etc. There will be a lot of road hours, hiking, waterfall hunting, picture taking, camping, lodging, and eating involved. Obviously this is a bit of an undertaking. And even though some of the state’s most scenic cascades require little or no hiking at all, I’m throwing those in as well just so folks don’t miss them.
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The guidebook, “Hiking Waterfalls in Oregon” will be a comprehensive list of what I consider to be the best waterfall hikes in the entire state of Oregon. This year I inked a contract with Falcon Guides to write my first book.