Kyle Meyer went backpacking May 28 to May 29, 2011 19 miles 6,000 feet gained 1 night
Went backpacking with six others Saturday night at Cedar Swamp camp on the Herman Creek trail. I thought that it would be far enough removed from the obvious popular choices in the gorge that we might find some solitude, but unfortunately that was not to be the case. I've never walked so far to camp by so many other people (4 other groups).
Sunday morning, four of us headed up to Green Point Mountain, but unfortunately the weather men were wrong and no views were to be had up there. The snow line was roughly 3700' although it stayed intermittent until about 4000'. We got lost coming back down the Gorton Creek trail as we followed someone's incorrect footsteps through the snow down the mountain until they disappeared after the snowline over a hundred feet below the correct trail. It took us roughly an hour of bush whacking and a sketchy creek crossing to find our way back on track.
A fun trip overall, but I'm sick of the snow.