Elevation Gain: Approximately 4000 ft
Time: 9:00 am - 4:00 pm
Weather: Beautiful, sunny, clear.
The student in the outdoor club wanted to go for a hike, and I wanted to prove that the pace at which I hiked the previous week was a result of my illness. For this reason, I hiked in the same place two weeks in a row, and it may have been the first time that has ever happened. There were also the options of doing a 6 mile, 7.6 mile, or 11 mile hike.
Three students met me in the morning, and everyone in the car wanted to do the 11 mile hike. We took off for the peak first. It was another beautiful day in the PNW. The last weekend of summer like weather, the end of a glorious run of the best weather I can remember since moving here in 2005.
It has a been a little too long since the hike, so the memories have faded a bit. I remember the 2.5 mile stretch that took me two and a half hours the week before only took me an hour and a half. I remember loving the views from the peak. We walked back down, then up to the lake. The lake was absolutely beautiful, and it was the first time I had been to the lake in exactly 104 weeks (or two years). It was so gorgeous that I had to jump in and swim a bit.
Orchid: Great hike with great kids.
Onion: Cannot think of one.
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