Treks and Adventures
A late season hike at Mt. Hood Meadows with Lori and Marilyn. We put together several of the lower trails to make a loop. Fall was setting in with most flowers gone to seed and fall colors coming on. We did about 4 miles and 400 ft. gain. Afterwards we went to Smokey Hearth for lunch.
I return to Mt. Hood Meadow to explore some new trails and fill in gaps in other trails. I went early, my usual, and found they did not open the main parking lot until 10 a.m., so it was back to the Umbrella Falls Trailhead. I wanted to finish off the Bear Grass trail and do a couple of easy new ones, Bear Grass Cut off trail and the Stadium Loop Trail. Then I would move on to something harder with the Medium Wizard Way trail and get into some higher alpine.
The numbers – hike was 11.6 miles long, 2720 elevation gain – toping out at 7300 ft. and 9 1/2 hrs. on the trail (setting a new record of 3:40 minutes of looking at the map, taking photographs and long visits with folks on the trail).
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
