While we were eating breakfast my husband read about our day's trail info. It was nice to wake to sun again. We were able to finish drying our things before we packed them away. A nice daylight photo view of our camp.
A heart rock near our cooking area
Happy me, our things are dry!!
Before we left Sheep lake, my daughter and I walked down and got some memory photos❤
Such a beautiful place.
All packed up and ready for another days' adventure!
Hiking out through the flowers
The trail before us with wide open views.
A rest stop with a nice view of Mount Adams
and a shady spot to snooze.
Hiking up towards Cispus pass and the high country❤❤ it was like water to a thirsty soul. I couldn't get enough of the views.
A slightly closer view of the red rock area and the Lupine field above it.
Looking towards the pass.
Still some flowers trying to grow along the rocky dry hillside.
Our daughter a switchback above us.
In the photo below you can see that our daughter has reached the pass.
My husband and I still trudging along, nearly there.
Yay! Cispus pass
A look back at where we'd come from.
A perfect lunch/rest stop.
A turn around the corner and Cispus basin came into view.
If you click on the photo below you'll see the trail we would be hiking on in the distance.
What a spectacular basin, full of wildflowers and water.
My husband wanted to check out a little camp area in the trees. We decided to keep going to find a camp farther along.
We crossed two small tributaries of the Cispus river in the basin area.
A heart rock❤
Pretty white flowers in the meadow below.
The wildflowers were thick near the waterways.
A nice waterfall stop to col off and refill our water bottles.
We passed a campsite where someone had put these rocks together in a heart shape❤
Some crew did a lot of work creating a trail and a stone wall in this rocky area.
Bypass trail
Bistort flowers
A very large cairn
Heading up towards Snowgrass flats, and looking for a camp
We found water and a camp and a view!
Meadow camping❤
My husband read the shortest Patrick McManus story of the trip. I accused him of not telling us the full story, but upon checking up on him he had read the full one. It was lame. The views in the evening on the other hand were incredible. The sunset around Mount Adams and Mount Saint Helens was amazing. I took a panorama of the scene, complete with a small crescent moon. It was a very magical place to spend the night.
Sadly no relive video of this day's route, my Garmin mysteriously stopped tracking. Luckily when we got to camp I restored it to default factory settings. After walking around to practice tracking I was very happy that it began working again. I don't know if it was the cold nights or the high altitude but both my daughter and I had some issues with our Garmin watches on this week's backpacking trip.
Garmin results from my daughters watch - yay!!
Total miles hiked - 6.41 miles
total ascent - 1263 feet
total descent - 791 feet
Elevation profile -
to be continued.....
