8 miles of hiking • 3000' elevation gain •
Quick hike to Indian Point after work. When I arrived about a dozen cars were parked, but all people were already coming back so I had it to myself after 1.5 miles. Did the loop counter-clockwise. The lower part of the trail is ho-hum, but the upper part is interesting (and steep). I only downloaded a map from NWhiker.com and didn't read description, so the map made me to believe I'll see Indian Point from the trail. I overshoot it by about 10 minutes before I realized it, so had to walk back up and located a good viewpoint to Indian Point just off-trail where NWhiker map says 2,600'. A few patches of snow on the trail at 2,900' high point. The flowers were good on "hanging meadows" along trail 447.
Comments
Roman
April 20, 2011
There was partly sunny weather, but it was still surprising how many people went there in mid-week. Maybe the recent good trip report in PH brought more people to Indian Point?
In the summer I will move over to Mount Hood, then Goat Rocks, Indian Heaven and Jefferson, so the more people will go to the Gorge (instead of the above areas) the better...
Kyle Meyer
April 21, 2011
Really great photos. 2900' being mostly snow-free sounds really, really exciting.
Chris
April 20, 2011
Wow - a dozen cars on a non-sunny weekday! They say the gorge trails are getting more crowded, but I wonder, come this summer, what things are going to look like.