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Lol at the first reply!
I live here and there are a ton of shooters here. Yes there are some hippydippy types, welcome to OR!
OP, what kind of shooting do you want to do? Our gun club has great traditional ranges and we shoot 600 yds twice per month. We have private property we can shoot out to 1,500 yards 7 minutes out of town. We also drive to grants pass twice per month to shoot 3 gun.
Tons of hiking, PCT is a couple miles out of town. Makes for some great section hikes. Still lots of snow on the mountain so my son is still hiking and skiing. The rogue river and Klamath river are very close for fishing and whitewater rafting. Redwoods are a drive but worth visiting as is Crater Lake. Crater Lake is a must see if you haven’t yet! Lots of wineries and some darn good beer here. Great dining opportunities as well. Almost forgot about the mountain biking. The reason I moved here 27 years ago! Great riding.
When are you going to be here? Feel free to pm me and we may be able to connect to pull some triggers. Also happy to point you to good food and drink. If you like wine we can shoot long distance and then hit our tasting room for beer and wine.
Let me know!
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I'm sure there are decent people in Ashland, you being an example. Most of the place is San Francisco hippies. Every time I've been there down town has been a hippieville, the Shakespeare festival.... Self explanatory. Every time I've biked there the entire group has been harassed by people yelling at us for some environmental or other wack job thing. We've even had people try to physically make us stop or take us off our bikes just riding through to get back to the shuttle for another round. I've had to run a few over.
Ashland has a reputation by the rest of the state as being a crazy liberal island in an otherwise decently normal part of the state. Where I am we refer it to as a smaller Southern Portland.
I loved riding Chucks Chips in Talent. Mt Ashland was always fun to ride. Time Warp is always a good ride. Used to enjoy Jabberwocky too. AMA was good people. Havent been able to ride there in ages. Probably never will again due to the crazies that seem to always find my riding group. I'll stick to Phil's Trail, Mt Bachelor and NUT for most of my pedal time now. Tons of amazing riding in OR. We used to have a Trials group in Bend, there is XC, AM, FR, DH, you name it.
Lots of cool stuff to do outside Ashland. Just depends on what you want to do.