Day hiking for us around here usually means driving 30 minutes to one hour to get to the trailhead (not forgetting the appropriate parking pass - state or national?) and then heaving our bodies uphill for several hours, having lunch, and then lurching our way downhill to the car. Gosh. It doesn't sound that great when I put it that way. Must be my painful joints talking . . . .
Anyway, we hiked up Twisp Pass on Saturday. It is SUCH a beautiful trail.
I told Frank we pretty much saw the whole wildflower book along the 2600 feet of elevation gain.
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| That's Hock Mountain there with the headwaters of the South Fork of the Twisp River in the valley below. |
We traveled on snow for a while. It's almost August for goodness sakes! Some trails may not be snow free before snow flies again.
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| Beware the pink snow monster. |
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A good 4 to 6 foot base of snow here still.
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We had lunch slightly above the pass. Yeah. I'm always thrilled to keep going UP, but certainly the views were worth it.
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That's Dagger Lake below and nothing but national park in the picture.
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I really like wooden signage in the wilderness.
This weekend we'll drag our butts up some other god-awful trail. Maybe Copper Glance. Maybe someplace in the Sawtooths. Any suggestions?
