Assault on Middle Sister
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Journal entry Monday September 19, 2006. A couple of hours of hiking and we're back on the trail and it's a pleasant fall day in the wilderness. Disgustingly pleasant.
It's much easier going down hill. But it now seems like a long ways.
Below Dave and Mike set a pretty good pace. We start thinking about cheese burgers and this sort of speeds us up. That and the exceptionally long rest we had.
We get down into the lower elevation and the area of the burn again. Small groups of young trees strangely survived.
Hiking on level ground we just carry our trekking poles. Notice the trail permit on Mike's pack?
Here I am, still a bit overdressed but glad to be warm.
We exit the Three Sisters Wilderness area:
Not every mountain climb is a success. It's good to take weather into account and judge accordingly with safety in mind. A greater amount of determination could have got us up to Middle Sister (or killed us, depending). We had a GPS with marked weigh points should direction become questionable. But crossing a glacier in poor visibility, and bad weather, did not seem all that wise considering. We chalked this up as a good backpack trip. Now that we know the approach we agreed to try this again sometime.
Back at the trailhead Dave and Mike review the map:
