4.6 hr
Overview
NOTICE: This trail is closed until further notice because of damage from the 2017 Eagle Creek Fire. Please check the list of Columbia Gorge trail closures before you plan for a hike. This hike is almost certainly a backpack (see a note in the end), although a few people have done it as a day hike. This hike starts in the Tooth Rock Trailhead. Start by walking east on the closed paved road that soon goes near the freeway. In about 1/2 to 3/4 mile you'll see a trail going steeply to the right; it may be unofficial but is pretty good (it's where you can see a brown information sign for "exit 40 1/2(or 1?) mile ahead" on a freeway near you). Hike the trail up to a closed gravel Tanner Creek Road #777. Walk uphill (west) for about two miles to the old Tanner Butte Trail #401 Trailhead, just before the road crosses a small creek. Take Trail 401 up and start climbing. The trail passes four unnamed waterfalls and crosses a creek couple of times. There aren't a lot of views as payback for your effort, but you'll cross a power line twice, offering a a bit of open air. Above the power line look for orchids blooming in June, mostly varieties of coralroot. 2.2 miles from road #777, you'll come to a junction with the unmaintained Wauna Point Trail #401D. There's a campsite here, as well, and a couple of small creeks just before a campsite that may dry in the end of summer. Continuing on, the climb moderates somewhat, but it continues up into rhododendron territory. You'll cross the wilderness boundary and 2 miles farther you'll pass a junction with Tanner Cutoff Trail #448. This partly overgrown trail leads steeply right (west) down the mountain to the Tanner Creek Trail. 150 yards further is a junction with Dublin Lake Trail #401B that leads steeply downhill the other way to Dublin Lake. Dublin Lake provides the best overnight spot for backpackers, and it's the only reliable source of water until Big Cedar Springs, which are 5.5 miles from here. In another half mile from this junction, the trail picks up an old road
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