I grew up horse back riding and hiking the Douglas ridge trails which are part of the Mt Hood wilderness area, some of the base hills of the mountain and the Eagle Creek wilderness area (bordered my childhood home). The starkly wild areas are the salmon huckleberry wilderness. If you want to feel the trees talking to each other, it's on the South side of Mt Hood...we used to go skinny dipping up at Bagby Hot Springs off of the Clackamas river, spooky fun at night, ancient woods surround the hotsprings. I've not heard of crystal crane hot spring , but Oregon is huge, from the westerly coastal ranges, to the eastern arid deserts side of the Cascade range. Madris to the East of Mt Hood and has some awesome fishing, rock and fossil hunting too! don't forget Crater Lack, one if the biggest calderas in the world....Boom!!!! I'll post some photos too!