12.5 miles of hiking • 4250' elevation gain •
Managed to snag the last bluebird day in daylight savings time for a magnificent loop from Timberline Lodge, over to Paradise Park, then up, up, up and over Mississippi Head where the 1949 wreckage of a B-26 is still scattered over the mountainside at about 7100'. Then it was up to 8000' in order to get across the top of Zigzag Canyon, before descending along the Palmer snowfield back to Timberline. Most excellent day!
Full trip report now up on PortlandHikers.
