Adams

Posted by aiddy on Wed 20 August 2008

South climb trail starts here

183 is the South Spur route (aka the dog route) from cold creek camp ground up Mount Adams.

spring flowers and mount adams

The spring flowers were out in abundance around 7,000ft...

martin and chris on the trail

...but the landscape soon dried out.

strike a pose...

The hike in gave us some time to practice poses for the summit photo...

how high?

...and to see how tall Martin is.

Chris taking a pause

Chris nearing the ridge line

The first snow field was a welcome change from rocks and gravel

Martin and Pikers Peak beyond (with the summit hiding to the lef

but it didn't half go on, and on, and on

after the sun went

snug as a bug in the tent

until eventually we reached the lunch counter @ just over 9,000ft and found a stone wall to pitch the tent behind (out of the wind so long as you kept below 2ft) and a sunset above the clouds...

taking sunset pictures in the cold

...which made for good piccy's :-)

getting there... 11,315 feet

Next day was a slow sicky slog up past piker's peak...

Mount Adams summit piccy - 12,276ft

...to the top

abandoned miners hut on the top of Mt Adams

where a miners hut remains,

Mount Hood

and then a more rapid decent, pausing for views of St Helens and Mount Hood in the distance.

For the interested, the picture that started it , and more on flickr .

Enormous thanks to Chris and Martin for getting us all up and down safe and sound.

Note: This post was updated on 2020-11-22 to fix broken links

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