24 miles of hiking • 4500' elevation gain • 1 night
Started from Cheat Creek TH - trail through the forest had quite a bit of deadfall and route is overgrown, but you can't lose it...unless your daydreaming. Cheat Meadow is in full bloom with wildflowers - quite lovely! Definitely ate up some time there. Continuing up to Triangulation Peak with views of Jefferson, Sisters, and Hood, and possibly even Thielson/Baily wayyyy to the south??? Scrambled down to Boca Cave - awesome view of Sir Jeff from the cave mouth. On again back down the trail towards Jefferson Park to meet up with a gaggle of girlfriends. HOTTT and buggy out. Snow-free. And saw beautiful a sunset and sunrise of the mountain from our campsite. The next day, hiked and dilly-dallied around the lakes and up to a waterfall along the PCT. Then toe-mashing commenced back down Whitewater trail, where I hitched a shuttle back to my car at Cheat Creek.
