Dan the ice cream man had coffee for us in the morning. We are probably going to miss sleeping at actual houses more than we care to admit. It's been a long time in the woods and these last 5 days are a glimpse into a much more.comfortable future. But enough of that, we have mountains to climb.
In fact, today was spent going up and over just 2 actual peaks. 15 miles, only 2 mountains. But they were huge, and pretty steep with long stretches of slick rock scrambles.
The first mountain, smarts mountain, had a fire.tower on it. It's officially closed to the public. The penalty for climbing is up to $5000?! What about going half way up ?
Anyways, all I'm going to say is that we could see all the mountains around us and the tall ones in our future were covered in clouds. We were only at 3200 ft. Moosalaukie, our first 4000ft peak since virginia, was hidden. We were excited by the 10 day forecast that predicted partly cloudy into the foreseeable future, but I guess if the ceiling is low, partly.cloudy is not the same ideal hiking weather we have come to enjoy at lower elevations.
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