10.5 miles of hiking • 3000' elevation gain •
A beautiful day on the trail all by ourselves. This hike is a relentless climb but the different vegetation and changing landscape as you climb keep it really interesting, I LOVE ridge hikes. And Hood was finally revealed on our way down, there is a really nice rock outcropping at about 4 miles in at 3500 ft that makes a great shorter turn around point.
