I chose to walk from Arch Cape to the Oregon Coast Trail. Once you pass the second little bridge, look for a game trail to the left about 50ft beyond the bridge. This trail will take you along a small stream, which you will cross over about 100 yds in. Follow your senses and you will find the continuation of the game trail, which connects to Arch Cape Mill road. My GPS showed the road, but it is all grown in and only a game trail exists today. The game trail is quite grown in spots. There are tall walls of brush. At some point, I was expecting to come head to head with an elk or deer walking towards me, but luckily that did not happen. I did spook something while walking along the trail. When I came out of the game trail and onto the actual road, I noticed a clearing that I had walked by. I looked down and saw two Calves and two Cow Elk. One calf was feeding on its mama. I stood and watched for a little while. Then they moved on.
Further up the road, I encountered a snake. It just was laying across the road. It did not move. I knew it was alive, but it just stood its ground, should I say, it laid its ground?
The road quickly becomes more primitive. I started my hike in the morning and the fog was settled in. I was not able to see many views until I was above the clouds and my decent later in the day.
Where the road ends, physically, it becomes a very tight trail. Be sure and wear long sleeves and pants if you can. Lots of bushes that will scrape you.
The picture is blurry because I was being attacked by bugs.
Much of the trail is adequate to walk. But it can be very close to land slides and cliffs. Kids and Dogs will be risky to bring along on this hike.
I took a detour in search of a geocache. I wound up fighting through thick trees and brush and no real trail. My GPS got me real close and I found the cache. The view from this spot was incredible. I could see Manzanita beach below. This is the Bleached Snag Geocache.
As shown on the map above, there is no real trail to the summit of Angora Peak. You will see the dotted line on the map. There are few clues on where to start your uphill trek. There is a orange tape hanging from a tree and it looks like there are more as I climbed to the summit. This is a very difficult climb. Be careful where you come out on top. At the summit, there is little warning that there is a 800 ft drop off. I took my time and made certain that where I came out, there was solid ground.
The Summit (Nehalem below)
There are lots of brush along the top. Do not get tangled in it and try to move around much. There is not much room for error. I was amazed to see Mt Rainier, Mt St Helens, Mt Adams and Mt Hood from the summit of Angora Peak.
While up on this hike, I found 7 geocaches.
The Bleached Snag and Angora Peak caches were spooky. Only because they are on a cliff. Definitely not places for kids or dogs. And both took some major bush whacking to reach.
Here are the Elevation stats
