6.5 miles of hiking • 1500' elevation gain •
A socked in Super Bowl snowshoe Sunday on Mt. Hood, still better than sitting around and eating fake cheese all afternoon. Started at the Barlow Pass Sno-Park and headed south on the PCT. Cut up at the high point to Tri-Country Ridge (Ghost Ridge) for some stunning non-views of Mt. Hood and Mt. Jefferson. Continued south along the ridgeline to (literally) the point where Wasco, Hood River, and Clackamas County meet and then headed down the Wasco/Hood River county line across the PCT into the basin between Palmateer Point and Tri-Country Ridge. Lots of shrub walking and creek avoidance down here, over a paltry 2" - 6" inches of snow. Intersected the summer trail to Palmateer and climbed to the top for an epic non-view of Mt. Hood and the Barlow Creek drainage. Back on the summer trail to the PCT and then back to the TH. Still, a great hike! There just isn't much snow up there.
