8.4 miles of hiking • 2250' elevation gain •
This was looking to be at at least a cool cloudy day, but turned out much worse. We had left behind our rain pants, but always have rain jackets. It was raining fairly hard for the first half of the hike, and the feeling of being back in a normal Pacific Northwest felt good. It seemed warm enough at the TH but got more windy and colder at the top of this ridge. We had to turn around early as my wife has Renaud's Syndrome and her hands were turning white from the cold! Our core body temps were fine but we really weren't completely prepared for this weather! We met two through hikers: Fluffy Star and Monk. We had a nice conversation and gave them each two packs of Oreo Cookies, which they gobbled down! A nice day buy definitely the weather was worse than expected. Plenty of standing water on the trail so I hope the threat of fire is abated for a while?
