Checking out new Trails that were build in the Mt. Hood Meadows Ski Resort. It is a nice new trail system with well designed trails and many beautiful placed to see.
Hike was about 8 miles with 1800 ft. elevation gain
Start of day and Mt. Hood with no haze
Starting out on the Umbrella Falls Trail
Goldenrod in morning light
A field of Goldenrod and Fire Weed
The bridge at Umbrella Falls is a landmark
Umbrella Falls
Umbrella Falls trail is a wide path
The cutoff is one of the new trails
Lot of spots to get great views of Mt. Hood
Mt. Jefferson and the Three Sisters are showing today
I have been wanted for years to get to Picnic Rock
The trail wines through the trees
The first view point and a great view
One of the natural meadows that give the area its name
The second viewpoint on top of the rock
Nice view with some fire smoke in the distance
The new trails are marked with a numbering system
These trails wind though old growth sub alpine forest
Some lupin that were still blooming
A patch of Pearly Everlasting
The road is my transition to a new trail
But first I made my wat around a ski lift
No on to explore the next trail
More great views of wildflowers and Mt. Hood
Indian Paint brush
Nice stone steps as part of the new trail system
A view across to a Newton Clark lateral moraine
A hiker on the Timberline Trail
One of many alpine streams I crossed
A close up view of Mt. Hood and the last of a glacier
Moving to the Lower Wizard Way trail and more up hill
Mt. Jefferson and thickening haze
Trail climbs up through a flower meadow
Golden Rod and Pearly Everlasting
A flower meadow in summer and a ski run in winter
Under one of the new chair lifts
View done the lift to the lodge and parking lot
A new Ski Patrol hut
A quick return route on the road
I had to watch my step on the loose gravel
Clouds started to swallow the mountain
False Heliborne on return section of the Umbrella Falls trail