Sunday, October 4, 2020
Today we hiked the Timberline Trail to Gnarl Ridge. We started at Cloud Cap and headed south, entering the Mt. Hood Wilderness right away:
Our first peek at the mountain:
Continuing on:
Looking north to Mt. St. Helens, Mt. Rainier, and Mt. Adams, with some haze:
After 1.1 miles we passed the junction with the Cooper Spur Trail and continued along the Timberline Trail:
Looking back at the Cooper Spur Shelter:
The landscape here is pretty barren:
Mt. Hood again:
Lamberson Butte came into view:
Looking east to Lookout Mountain:
We reached a nice viewpoint at the top of Gnarl Ridge:
There’s a rockpile there:
I wanted to go as far as Lamberson Butte, but the trail started losing elevation on its way down Gnarl Ridge, so we turned around and headed back to that viewpoint:
Hazy view of Mt. Jefferson:
Heading back this was our parting view of Lamberson Butte:
On the way back we could see the haze in Washington had gotten worse:
Gaia stats: 7.25 miles, 2,000′ elevation gain
