Today we get to go to one of my favorite places on the Wonderland trail - Indian Bar. Last year it was foggy and rainy and the views were non existent. I was hopeful for better this year.
Looking tired, but ready for today's journey.
Walking through extra large ferns, they gave it a tropical feel.
A couple of creek side walks & creek bridge crossings today.
Looking down at the road through Box canyon. We were standing on top of the tunnel.
The view down below the highway.
There are garbage cans and restrooms at the parking lot, woo hoo real toilets and a place to get rid of our garbage! Simple pleasures - those places are golden on the trail. Another road crossing and then we make our way up the Cowlitz Divide and on to Indian Bar camp for the night.
A look back at our area of opportunity.
The views began to look very similar to last years, not too promising😥. It was interesting that this trip and last year's had pretty similar weather at the same locations.
Shaggy Mane mushroom.
Time to put on the backpacker ponchos.
The plants were collecting rain drops.
Even though it was foggy and rainy with no views the flowers were in bloom and visible beside the trail.
Looking up to where we needed to go. My right inner quad felt as if it were going to cramp as we made our way up the last uphill section, but I was ready as I was last year and began to take in some mustard to help my muscles. It worked! I had no real cramping up this section this year, just a couple of twinges.
My happy place❤??
This hill top is usually a place of wonderful views, for two years in a row this is what we saw - white fog.
Beautiful flowers in the fog.
These flowers remind me of the Truffula trees in the Dr. Seuss book "The Lorax".
It was so foggy we didn't even see the Indian bar shelter until we were across from it. It's usually visible most of the way down the hill to camp.
The bridge to camp.
We got our tent set up. My husband got water, filtered it and made dinner while I set up the inside of the tent. Before, during and after dinner he dug trenches around the tent as it had began to rain very hard. The area near our tent filled up like a small lake so he created a drain for it to run out before he came to bed. His clothes were wet when he came in the tent. He actually just went to bed as he was, that's the key to good camping gear they dried out fairly quickly. I'm so thankful for everything that he did that night.
We fell asleep to the sound of rain falling on our tarp in our dry tent.
Relive video of our route:
Garmin stats:
11.42 miles
4124 feet ascent
1791 feet descent
Elevation profile:
Trip summary:
92.19 - miles
23,646 - feet ascent
23,019 - feet descent
Elevation profile:
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