On a hike in 2006, in the spur of the moment I decided to climb Spencers Butte, instead of walking the Ridgeline Trail. - http://www.planeteugene.com/spencersbutte.htm After taking the wrong "trail" (not a trail at all but rather a water runoff channel), I began to consider the old saying, "there is no fool like an old fool", to be a pretty profound statement. I could just imagine myself wandering the heights of the butte looking for the trail. The climb back from the so-called trail was so steep that I did some stretches by crawling, and all of this with two cameras and bags on my back. Just another tale in the misadventures of fotabug.

In 2015, I hiked the butte twice in two weeks. I got the date wrong for a dedication of the renovated trail to the top, and so made the hike a week early. The following week, on the correct date, I hiked it again. A new set of photos record some of the event.