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| Hiking | 9.10 Miles |
1,626 AEG |
| | Hiking | 9.10 Miles | 4 Hrs 22 Mns | | 2.09 mph |
| 1,626 ft AEG | 1 Min Break | | | |
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| no partners | | I decided to stick close to home again with the rain Friday night. Not sure how it might affect the highways heading north. I saw the Usery Spur trail that heads out to Usery Road from the MT spur from the Pass Mountain Trail and decided to make a point of hiking that along with MT and parts of the Pass Mountain Trail.
Started at 6:20am in the dark, but with the full(ish) moon, I never needed a headlamp. I started from the Bulldog TH along Usery Road and headed south on the MT, then did an out and back on the Usery Spur. I followed what looked like an obvious trail and found myself off track after a bit. I followed the wash back to the track, which then seemed to mostly follow another wash after a bit. On the way back I stayed on track.
Got to the Pass Mountain Trail and hiked clockwise over to the pass on the east side of the mountain and headed back. The views to the north and east were spectacular with all the fog lying in the valley and rolling up over the saddles and passes. At the pass I turned around and headed back to the MT.
At the junction of the Pass Mountain Trail and where the MT spur heads north, I took the trail that heads south and east up to the top of Pass Mountain. I stopped short of getting to the top since it was starting to get a little late and I knew that the trail would eventually give way to the route finding of the ridgeline. That seems like another hike to another day from inside the park.
Made my way back down the faint trail and back to the car, negotiating of dicey sections of steep and loose scree. Saw a family with small kids and a dog making their way up which was a bit surprising.
The weather was very cool, but still warm when heading uphill into the sun. Once I was hiking downhill with the sun on my back, it felt very cool again very quickly. |
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