15.5 miles of hiking • 2500' elevation gain • 1 night
My pops is able to tack on a weekend or so in Portland every few months when he has to fly to Oakland, CA for business. He knows we're (or me at least) are hiking addicts, especially at this point in the year, so, we take him out for the best we know of, when the weather is right for adventure. Large Marge BC captivated us to no end last year. Even on a foggy October day with my bud Al along the lakes and a retreat from Whittier Ridge, it was still spectacular. So, we knew we had to get my pops up there at some point. We do it right for a Michigan flat-land desk-jockey, saddling him up with some water, a few snacks, his toiletries and clothes, a headlamp, and a 2.5lb sleeping bag. And on the hike out we took the sleeping bag from him, hehe.
Just an incredible time. Flowers galore, flock-like amounts of hummingbirds, constant expansive views-just can't say enough. Little hairy on a few snow crossings but the snow was exceedingly soft so I was able to make many wide, short steps, that were deep and slanted inward. It was a fairly warm night so things never even iced back up really for the morning trek back across.
Comments
Water (Matt)
August 5, 2011
this was just 'above' Dome camp site... the hill I took the pictures from is the same hill you camped below and went up from Margaret camp, I think.
I'm not going to have an aneurism if I wasn't distinctly within their hard as hell tent pads.. so long as you're camping on the hoof-trodden sandy/volcanic debris and not on vegetation and within proximity to the 'camp site' i dont care.
thanks for your comments
Water (Matt)
August 5, 2011
and thanks for the site!
Kyle Meyer
August 5, 2011
Always the best photos.
Also, this is one of my favorite areas and it looks like you camped in the same spot I did last year (next to Margaret camp that was covered in snow?)