Roaring River Wilderness

The Roaring River Wilderness is the largest of the new Oregon wilderness areas designated in 2009. The area is contiguous with the Salmon Huckleberry wilderness and contains multiple alpine lakes. I started at the Shellrock lake trailhead and hiked to Shellrock lake. I then walked around west side of the lake to a rockfall. Instead of following the trail up to Frazier turnaround, I climbed the rockfall, bushwhacked, and climbed a series of rock falls to the Grouse Point Trail just below the summit of Frazier Mountain. I took a series of photos from the top of the rockfall which I turned into the panorama . The view is Mt. Hood in the north through the Cascades to Mt. Jefferson in the south. I then hiked to Middle Rock Lake. I swam in the slightly cold water from one side to the other. The photos are of Shellrock Lake, the rockfall, and Middle Rock Lake.