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McNeil Point Hike, Mount Hood Wilderness - CH Action Adventures

“Mount Hood National Forest” offers up to 73 moderate hiking trails, ranging from 0.9 to 102.1 miles, and the “McNeil Point Trail” is certainly one of its finest. This particular trail was named after a famed journalist for The Oregon Journal for nearly 45 years, from 1912 to 1957, Fred McNeil. McNeil was a huge fan of Mount Hood, and according to the preface of McNeil’s Mount Hood: Wy’East the Mountain Revisited, a 1990 re-issue of McNeil’s classic Mount Hood book, the Cascade Mountains captivated him from the day he arrived in Portland from Illinois in 1912. He “pursued and reported events on the peaks with a passion” and “became personally involved in their protection as well as their development, especially for skiing.” If something happened on Mount Hood — someone got lost, a plane crashed, a fire broke out — McNeil would instantly turn his news focus to the mountain, no matter what else was going on. The McNeil Trail connects with the Timberline Trail, which was completed in the 1930s, during the depths of the Great Depression, when Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s New Deal recovery program, and the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC), brought the needed manpower and financial resources to the project. 10’ by 10’ stone shelters were built along the Timberline Trail by the CCC crews as a place for hikers to camp and rest, and as protection against sudden storms. Most are of the same stone design that you will see in this video, accompanied with a small fireplace and chimney. The McNeil Point Shelter sits on a prominent ridge on Mount Hood's west side at approximately 6,100’ in elevation, between the Glisan Glacier to the north and the Sandy Glacier to the south. In this video, you will see old growth forests, babbling brooks, wildflowers, meadows, and views of prominent mountains such as Mount St. Helens, Mount Rainier and Mount Adams. As such, this video is a tribute to Fred McNeil, and the wonderful work he did to preserve the beauty of the mountain for generations of hikers to come, both present and future 😊…