19 miles of hiking • 6000' elevation gain • 1 night
Went backpacking with six others Saturday night at Cedar Swamp camp on the Herman Creek trail. I thought that it would be far enough removed from the obvious popular choices in the gorge that we might find some solitude, but unfortunately that was not to be the case. I've never walked so far to camp by so many other people (4 other groups).
Sunday morning, four of us headed up to Green Point Mountain, but unfortunately the weather men were wrong and no views were to be had up there. The snow line was roughly 3700' although it stayed intermittent until about 4000'. We got lost coming back down the Gorton Creek trail as we followed someone's incorrect footsteps through the snow down the mountain until they disappeared after the snowline over a hundred feet below the correct trail. It took us roughly an hour of bush whacking and a sketchy creek crossing to find our way back on track.
A fun trip overall, but I'm sick of the snow.
Comments
similar thing happened to me on larch mtn. saturday am. no other tracks for me to blame, just my own poor route finding with no gps...
Eric Peterson
May 31, 2011
Hey Eric, I wanted to tell you there is a killer campsite at Warren lake with a super nice built up fire pit.
Kyle Meyer
May 31, 2011
Sounds like my weekend is planned. Thanks for the tip Eric!
Kyle Meyer
May 31, 2011
Also, this was the first time tracks through the snow led me astray. Typically people come from somewhere, but not this time apparently.
Eric Peterson
May 30, 2011
Man, Warren Lake was deserted! 'Course hard to know which places will be sparser than others...