Timberline still has a ski lift running and people are still skiing the higher runs. Quite the historic lodge.
As Happy 6 said “now it is August, Spring has finally arrived.” Some snow patches, lots of nicely flowing water.
Been a beautiful day so far, even if we got what was really a noon start.
More day hikers than I’ve seen on the rest of the trail put together. (ok. Slight exaggeration when I wrote this, true by the time I edited it). Really beautiful.
Though there were parts of the trail I had to Tarzan and there were several steep verticals that started to slow me down on the last uphill water carry. We had one ford of a stream and some more crossings.
We hiked to a peak top campsite. Mike 2112.4. Got water at a stream and carried five liters a mile and a half to where we stopped.
With the mosquitoes that suddenly started to swarm around 6:00 we decided on a cold dinner. I had two packages of nutter butter cookies and called it a day until later when I had water and some more.cookies and a protein bar.
The cookies were no where near as tasty as the sandwich Kris (my sister-in-law packed me for lunch. That was like manna.
We are in a tent site near the trail. It is fun to see hikers walk by. But we put the door out eventually so we could change clothes. Then folded it back for ventilation.
Napped for a bit. Now back to sleep.
Timberline is 14.52 miles back. Cascade Locks is 35.2 ahead. We made the fourteen miles I hoped for and more. We have water filtering and chemically treated and are ready for the morning.