Toe Headed Heaver - Oh And Time On The Mountain

You know you've had a perfect day on the mountain when a 3 or 4 year old boy uses both hands to chuck a snowball at your car as you are leaving Paradise parking lot. I know his dad missed it and I hope his mom did too. The best part was that Pam, Sherrie and I all saw the whole thing develop from inside the car.

We were up at Paradise to head up towards Camp Muir. It is never a guarantee that you will succeed when a mountain is involved and between a little bit of a late start and my 3rd time in a row mis-remembering the time necessary to arrive at the trailhead and actually hike the trail we ended up turning around 2/3rds of the way up with 1.5 miles and about 1700 feet of elevation gain to go.

There was some sporadic low clouds (fog?) that we walked through by the top of Panorama Point hill. Then you could see Mt Adams and Mt Hood that were - at times - floating on the clouds like islands.

 

 

Our turn around was 3 miles in and just under 2900 feet of elevation gain so we got a nice workout in even though we did not make Camp Muir. Our glissade down Panorama Point hill was really fast and very entertaining. Pam and I passed on our garbage bags we used to glissade to a couple of women who were heading up. They were exited.

John Muir said that any person who spends time in nature gets back much more than their effort and that is completely true. I always say that anytime on a mountain beats time doing almost anything else.

Be very well and more soon...