25 miles of hiking • 10250' elevation gain •
This was supposed to be a Mt. Hood 1 day around hood hike, but what with the fires and all we had to change it up and do something different.
Behold! I give you the DWTHB all in one day loony hike!
Met up with Guy, Cascadehiker and Mayhem right around 5:00 am @ Dog MT. to start the pentuplet.
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Made pretty good time being fresh from getting up at 3:15 and not eating anything yet.
Since we had our headlamps on and it was still pretty dark I was able to spot a cougar to left of us as we headed up. First I heard some rustling then I saw the glow of the cats eyes, close together and NOT running off. CH was just ahead of me and notified him so he could also witness it. Mayhem and Guy were far enough ahead that they missed the glow of it's eyes.
Here we are at the junction that has a nice viewpoint -
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And here we are at the top of Dog, 1 hour and 15 I think -
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I jetted down not realizing the sun hadn't come up yet and missed viewing it with my other trail friends.
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So I was pretty much jogging down trying to do a DN, I had my trail running shoes for this loony hike today, and was far enough ahead of the other guys since they stopped to take pix of the sunrise that I thought it would be funny to make cat sounds as if I were being eaten. I don't think the guys heard me but the cougar from earlier sure did! The cat was still in the same area and I saw it this time jaunting off a bit to get more under cover. I stopped got the camera out and waited for my trail friends. Sorry, no pictures unfortunately.
Round trip for Dog was 2 hours.
Headed over to Wind MT.
I parked right at the TH but the others parked up a above, they got a little more EG for the day than I did.
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Now on to Table.
Parked at the Hot Springs Resort and refueled at our coolers. I think we headed out at around 9:30 and took the Dick Thomas 'home made trail'.
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At the kiosk taking a breather and I'm dreading the steep section of the HBR trail -
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Got a few pictures of the area where Don had scrambled up a steep chimney and almost climbed over, on a hike a few months ago with him and his son Paul.
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I believe the chute terminates in the brush up towards the right, Don can fill us in to be more precise since he was the one right at the top almost ready to go up and into this brush -
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Heading up the silly talus slope -
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Newer signage on Table -
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Some views from the top of Table -
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Headed back down Table using the same route up, this boulder field sucks eggs going down. Meet a HUGE church group as we headed down. I think 2 out of 20 had water bottles but one kid had a .22 that he said he was going to use for target practice. Super nice group of kids that couldn't believe a group of old guys was in the middle of a loony mega hike.
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This part was awesome, cooling off on a branch of Cedar Creek, still flowing nicely!
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Movie made by Mayhem with us cooling off -
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Next up Hamilton!
Man, this 5 hike thing was getting VERY hard for me now at this point and I really kinda wanted to take the bail out easier way up. Guy said no way dude and almost beat me up for even mentioning the 'wussier' way.
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I forgot that Hamilton had more EG when I saw this part, but luckily doesn't have a dreaded section like over on Table.
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I finally made it up just in time for the group shot and to turn around and head back down...
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Last hike for the day, Beacon Rock -
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I believe this mega hike was 25 miles and 10,200' for me and another 100 or so for the other 3 guys as they had a little more over on Wind from parking further from the official TH parking area.
Fun day guys 8-)
[deleted user]
September 13, 2011
That was a sick hike dude!! It was not Hood but it was still fun! Hopefully a few other loonies will join in on the next one!