10.5 miles of hiking • 5000' elevation gain • 1 night
Damn. Lost this the first time 'round. Anyways. Repeat of Middle Sister. This time with compatriot Al and wife of 1 week, Kara!! Left PDX at 5:00am after dropping friend off at airport (so really, left PDX). Sisters Coffee rocks me! McDonalds cancer biscuit breakfast also primo for the mountains.
Snow melted fast. Approach even quicker, but more blowdown to deal with (someone get on that--horse packers??) Of note, the 'hogsback' dealy going up to Prouty Point/Pinnacle (whichever..) and the saddle seemed to have steepened over the course of 3 weeks. I guess the snowpack was subsiding--it is a glacier (hayden) after all.. so perhaps it scooted 100 ft or something, as it sure felt steeper.
Second summit of a volcano for Mr. Al. Cuddie whut up!
Of note was the noticeable hissing we heard as we got to the TH. we immediately took the tire off and put the donut on. Why we didn't drive out and get the tire patched at Les, I have no idea. The next day we wasted 30 minutes driving around sister finding all options closed and unavailable to help out, so, we had a ginger drive back to portland on the spare.
cheers
