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Olallie Lake, which is in the Central Zone(barely! The Willamette Zone is right across Skyline Drive as you arrive from the North)and drains eventually into the Deschutes, is just about my favorite place to camp out, hike, take it easy, get drunk, and catch big rainbows. True, they are all brooders(the bigger ones)and they come from the Oak Springs Hatchery on the Deschutes. But they are funnnnnn to catch, to eat and there's lots of other lakes nearby to fish. I've been going up there since about 1975 when the nearest pavement was in Detroit or Estacada.
The resort was closed these past two summers but new owners will open it up next summer, according to Mt. Hood National Forest HQ. Cool. Those ol' rustic cabins are awesome, or were until the now departed last owners let everything fall into disrepair. I'm looking forward to next summer!
Here's a few fish I've caught up there during the past few years. Didn't make it up there this year. Too late now unless you got showshoes.:lol:
BFF
Yeppers! The south end down by Penisula Campground(which got partly toasted)burned down to the dirt. Monon got scorched bad too. Those beautiful little lakes on the Reservation side which kinda run alongside the stream flowing out of Olallie got toasted bigtime. There's something like 50 lakes within 5 miles of Olallie, most all of which have fish, mostly brookies, by the way.
Anyone ever been to the top of Olallie Butte? That's quite the view from up there. And you can go south of Olallie after the snow's way gone and keep going(4 wheel or all wheel a good idea)and come back out on 46 near the powerlines at the border of Willamette and Mt. Hood N. Forests. I usually go to Olallie through Detroit from Albany, though you can get there from Estacada or Hwy. 26 near Clear and Timothy Lakes.
When the fire chased us outa there we went to Detroit, got a motel(we didn't bring a tent what with renting that yurt) and went to Tule Lake off of Forest Route 11 or 10, the one that comes up along Quartzville Creek. While at Tule the next day we saw the mushroom cloud go up when it got really hot from the fire. I got pics of that cloud. I'll post 'em after I smallerize them.:lol:
BFF
man we yanked out some big ones (all 15ish) this past summer and would limit in under an hour, both me and my wife.. at a lake just south called "horseshoe lake", good small camp ground, well spread out and good fishing on the backside of the lake near the rock slide
BEST tasting wild brook trout that are running around over populating(words from a forest service research guy that scuba's all the lakes in the area) a lake called "dark lake" just to the east(20-30 min hike) of olallie. Talk about an awesome lake, pretty, quite, and you have the whole place to yourself
another good lake to backpack into and camp lakeside and has good cutthrout population is "lower lake".. you are by yourself when camping and fishing, might only see 2 or 3 people all day that are hiking to "fish lake". pulled some nice 12-14 inch cut's last summer