9.6 miles of hiking • 1500' elevation gain •
This is one beautiful wilderness. We only made it a 1/2mile past Lake Waban but would have liked to make it farther. From the pictures I've seen of Lake Harriette I need to go back there for a backpack trip! Even though it was hazy from all the forest fires, it was clear enough for great pictures. It was also cool weather with some breezes. Another great perk is that NO people but us were on the trail, and the trail was in excellent shape!
This was the last full day of hiking for our trip but tomorrow we'll do a short piece of the PCT on the north side of Crater Lake before returning home. There are still a large number of PCT through hikers arriving at Crater Lake and we met the following while having dinner in the Annie Creek restaurant (we also gave them a half a family size pizza that was left over from dinner):
Lil'step Shep Dog Cowboy Funk
