title: Cascade Summer: My Adventure on Oregons Pacific Crest Trail
author:  Bob Welch 
description: "Cascade Summer" is the story of (Eugene) Register-Guard columnist Bob Welch' 2011 attempt, along with his brother-in-law, to hike the length of Oregon's mountainous spine on the 452-mile Pacific Crest Trail. And to better understand 19th-century Cascade Range advocate John Waldo, the state's answer to California naturalist John Muir. Laughs. Blisters. And new friends from literally around the world  the trip had it all. But Welch never foresaw the journey's bittersweet ending.
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  The Oregon Trail
  
  
    
    
  [CHAPTER I. THE FRONTIER  
    
  ](The%20Oregon%20Trail_split_001.html#filepos4120)[CHAPTER II. BREAKING THE
  ICE  
    
  ](The%20Oregon%20Trail_split_001.html#filepos19872)[CHAPTER III. FORT
  LEAVENWORTH  
    
  ](The%20Oregon%20Trail_split_001.html#filepos41444)[CHAPTER IV. "JUMPING OFF"  
    
  ](The%20Oregon%20Trail_split_001.html#filepos47961)[CHAPTER V. "THE BIG BLUE"  
    
  ](The%20Oregon%20Trail_split_001.html#filepos70510)[CHAPTER VI. "THE PLATTE
  AND THE DESERT"  
    
  ](The%20Oregon%20Trail_split_001.html#filepos107715)[CHAPTER VII. THE BUFFALO  
    
  ](The%20Oregon%20Trail_split_001.html#filepos135422)[CHAPTER VIII. TAKING
  FRENCH LEAVE  
    
  ](The%20Oregon%20Trail_split_002.html#filepos169276)[CHAPTER IX. SCENES AT
  FORT LARAMIE  
    
  ](The%20Oregon%20Trail_split_002.html#filepos202548)[CHAPTER X. THE WAR
  PARTIES  
    
  ](The%20Oregon%20Trail_split_002.html#filepos232657)[CHAPTER XI. SCENES AT THE
  CAMP  
    
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