Awesome views and very hard! Make sure you start early. Be at trail head around 11 am or earlier. Set your tent at Counter Lunch or a little bit lower around 3 pm or 4 pm( you need time to get used with higher altitude, see where you set your tent) eat, rest and go early 7,8 pm and sleep. Get up around 2 am or 3 am - eat, energize/hydrated and up you go. Make sure you have water and other filtration bottles, nave you need to melt some snow - have the right tools for that. Crampons not Micro-spikes. The entire trip from the start to the summit it is very exposed, no shade. At night secure your tent really good- strong wind 💨 . Be aware of the road up to the trail head … very bad . You need high clearance vehicle!
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Note: track to summit is obvious. The extra line is from me forgetting to turn off recording until we got to Trout Lake.
Great trail. Road was (in my opinion) passable for pretty much any type of rig.
Didn’t end up using GPS to follow a track on the way back. Booters + markets make it pretty obvious.
Excellent climb. Wonderful conditions.
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Gorgeous meadows, the closer you get to the pct.
Patchy snow starting around 5500 feet - still a lot of snow, at PCT junction (6,080 feet).
No visible tracks / traffic on PCT through here, yet.
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Hiked for a summit on 4th of July. Much less snow than previous years this time of season. Challenging hike but definitely doable.
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First time hiking in this area. Killen Creek Trail was a long uphill section that def got the heart rate up. In the last 1 or 2 miles before intersecting with the PCT Mt Adams came into view. This was encouraging & motivating to keep going. Dan located a great base camp site and after setting up we headed on up the Highline Trail. This was another amazing section that offers lots of views inside the forest, open pastures, and many great opportunities to marvel at Mt Adams. We headed back to base camp for the evening after Day 1. Mt Adams is impressive with its massive glacier running down the West face. Often we could hear what sounded like big rock/ice slides, but never were close enough to see that happen.
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Hiked 8/15/20. Started at 4:30 am. 12.5hrs RT.
Absolutely gorgeous weather. Beautiful views, mountain goats, a little stream, friendly vibe. Took my niece and nephew who were 14 and 12, and my brother-in-law and a friend. Just wore hiking boots and crampons up. Although plenty of people were doing it in micro spikes. You could use either. Bring a ice axes for glissading back down. I used hiking poles, but not necessary. Watch out for potholes of water. Lol. It was just so pretty... the entire way. At the top you could see all the mtns- hood, Helens, Rainer, baker. 🐐☀️🗻
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I really enjoy hikes through former burn areas and this did not disappoint. Had to wade creeks as there was no log or rocks to keep out of the water. Stayed at one of a few campsites at Looking glass Lake. Love the wild flowers and the views from the meadows. Saw a herd of elk .
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Mixed weather up top. Clouds stayed intact until 11:30 then windows opened and closed. Fog came up from south side intermittent. Snow softened around 11am so we were post holing above lunch Counter.
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