13.5 miles of hiking • 2250' elevation gain •
We started near Gray Butte, did a loop around Smith Rocks, and back long way uphill. The trail on the back side of Smith Rocks have been completely rebuilt some time in the summer, with wide, gentle switchbacks replacing former rocky & steep path (the reason we made it CW direction is to come up that part; used to be too steep to come down safely).
We also visited Trillium Lake on the way there - the road to the lake is VERY icy but our car - and several others - handled it okay.
Edit - actual length of all segments of the track is 13.48 mi, don't know why GPS total of the trip is 15.2 but I corrected it according to actual track.
