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Overview
Multorpor Mountain rises as a forested cone east of the Skibowl winter and summer recreation areas. A network of foot, ski, and road tracks leads around this prominence and allows the hiker access to the area. Keep to the trails described: there are points where you could stray onto private land. The views from the top of Multorpor Mountain take in Mount Hood and the surrounding area. Hike this loop in August, and you will be treated to a huckleberry bounty, so leave time for foraging! Cross the highway with caution and find the dirt road that leads past a weathered post stamped with an Oregon Trail marker. Pass a brown shed and reach a gravel parking area with wooden buildings. To the left of the Gas House, see the high post with cross-country ski trails indicated. Go left to follow the Barlow Trail. Enter a cool forest of Alaska yellow-cedar, silver fir and mountain hemlock with many huckleberry bushes. The trail follows a jeep track and descends past a junction with the Hemlock Trail. Rise and drop and reach a junction with a sign saying “To Summit Trail.” Go right here on the Tie Trail and head up among blueberry bushes. Reach a road and go left. In about 50 yards, come to a junction with the Powerline Trail and go left here, heading up on a rough track. About 25 yards past the crest, as the trail begins to descend, there’s an unmarked trail, the Multorpor Mountain-Powerline Trail Junction, leading up the road embankment on the right. Head up in dry woods of yellow-cedar, silver fir, mountain hemlock, Engelmann spruce, rhododendron, bracken and bear-grass. The trail drops slightly and then heads steeply up again. Noble fir, lodgepole pine, and Douglas-fir are also in the mix, as well as vine maple and boxwood. Switchback at an open area and pass a lodgepole pine with six trunks! Swing to the left and hike up to the rocky summit of Multorpor Mountain. There are great views to Mount Hood, parts of Government Camp, and Trillium Lake. Mount Jefferson can be seen to the south, and Barlow Butte is to the east.
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