11 miles of hiking • 3750' elevation gain •
Set out early Sunday morning with some girlfriends for Mississippi Head on Hood. Started at Timberline at 7am and made our way to Paradise Park. There is a route up the mountain from the Paradise Park meadows, as well as from Split Rock - we went up from Split Rock. We followed a scree path followed by some snow-traversing up to the Head, at about 7500'. Took in the views of Jefferson, Sisters, Helens and even Adams. But no plane crash wreckage - we aren't brave enough souls to lean out over the cliff or scramble down. We then headed up the glacier to 8200', although you really only need to go up to 8000' in order to safely traverse above the deathly drop into Zig Zag Canyon. Descended via Palmer ski lift where there were hoards of skiiers and snowboards and tents and jumps and snow bowls set up. School or training or practice? My friend said that Hood is where Olympic athletes practice because it is the only mountain the lower 48 that has snow year-round. True??? Anyway, fabulous day.
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Desert Fox, the trail dips to 4750' through the ZZ canyon on the way to Paradise. Google Earth puts my track at 4450'EG when I did it last summer, as the route also drops another 350' to the prop on the cliff. (It's a great hike!)
http://gpsfly.org/a/1814
@ Desert Fox - Calling out people with no trips posted yourself? - Bold.
Not doing your Homework - Stupid.
From PH:
10.6 miles 3,800 Vertical
http://www.portlandhikersfieldguide.org/ph/forum/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=9203&sid=ba6ceb3a560e0b646baaa6ddccec9bde
owned.
Thanks for the info. If anything it was my mileage I was doubting -- we had an altimeter with us, so was pretty sure of our EG, but not so much on mileage, which seems we may have rounded up. :)
Desert Fox
July 29, 2013
So how did you come up with almost 4,000' of elevation gain? The Timberline parking lot is nearly 5,900 ft, so even accounting for a few ups and downs heading out and back along Paradise Park up to 8,200 ft, it's a bit of a stretch to make the claim that you did 3750' of gain.