15 miles of hiking • 3500' elevation gain •
Wide awake at 4am suffering from severe jet lag, I headed to Mt Adams for some trail time. Exploring Riley Camp trail has been on my to do list for awhile and my intention was to do an up and back hike to treeline but instead I ended up doing a longer loop by taking the "Riley Camp cutoff" -- trail 64a -- to the PCT then head north until catching Riley Camp trail (64) again. Mosquitoes werent too bad if I kept moving but were a nuisance whenever I tried to stop. There are still quite a few patches of snow on the PCT but no stretches greater than 75-80 yards.
