Today, Dan and I hiked a small section of the Pacific Crest Trail which runs from the US border with Mexico to the US border with Canada. Our destination was Little Belknap Crater which last erupted 1500 years ago. It left behind just massive amounts of lava - fields and boulders as far as you can see - in the Mt. Washington Wilderness area of the Cascade range. We started out in a very pleasant forest but soon found ourselves surrounded by lava fields. Charlie was our ever vigilant guide leading the way and even Bella managed to survive the trek - although her paws were pretty tender by the time we got back to the car. Walking "barefoot" on lava is not recommended!
Our goal was to get far enough along the trail to see Mt. Washington and Jefferson to the north. We had The Sisters behind us all the way - it wasn't till we were almost to the top of Little Belknap that our goal came into sight. It was so worth the uphill trek!!
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1 comment:
What great pics! So nice to see altitude. Everything is sooooooo flat in this part of Texas. There ARE mountains...just not here at the edge of the desert ;-)
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