7.5 miles of hiking • 1250' elevation gain •
Hiked with my dad on Gray Butte trail from seasonally closed Rd 5720 to a small summit overlooking Smith Rocks state park. Initially planned to include Smith Rocks in the loop but ended out taking more photos and slowing down the pace, and we didn't want to hike 1.5 hours in the dark. The weather was gorgeous, almost no wind. We took some freezing fog pictures on the Deschutes River rest area early on.
It started to snow on Mt. Hood when we drove back.
