Trip to Three Sisters Wilderness, Oregon
I had a birthday, summited Middle Sister, and got engaged. Whoa!
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| We arrived in oregon 9pm friday night and met up with some friends from Eugene. Jocelyn and Anna. | Matt, Aaron, Jocelyn at Camp Lava Lake | img_0464.jpg |
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| img_0470.jpg | On Saturday morning, we prepare to hike in | img_0475.jpg |
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| We head South on the Pacific Crest Trail (PCT) | Boomer takes a break and cools down | North (front) and Middle Sister (right) |
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| These packs are super comfy | Heading into the lava fields | Interesting lava hill |
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| Lets start gaining elevation | img_0497.jpg | Getting closer to the North and Middle Sisters |
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| img_0501.jpg | img_0502.jpg | We made it to the Glacier Way trail, time for a break |
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| Boomer takes a nap | Steve, Emma, Rachel, and Jesse met us here from the Obsidian Trail | PCT and Glacer Way Trail intersection, Middle Sister |
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| Next we hiked up to Arrowhead Lake ridge to camp | Saturday night camp | img_0524.jpg |
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| img_0527.jpg | img_0528.jpg | Hanging out, Mt Washington, Three Fingered Jack, and Mt Jefferson in the distance |
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| img_0531.jpg | img_0532.jpg | Evening sun on Middle Sister; tomorrow we climb it |
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| Smoke or fog rolling in over Mt Wash., Three Fing. Jack, and Mt Jeff. | North Sister (left), Middle Sister (right) | img_0541.jpg |
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| img_0544.jpg | AWARD WINNER. Awesome view from Arrowhead Lake | img_0550.jpg |
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| Sunday Morning we begin our ascent of the Middle Sister | See Arrowhead Lake where we started our ascent | Ascending the first glaciers |
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| Ascending Middle Sister | img_0556.jpg | img_0557.jpg |
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| Up the Collier Glacier, the largest glacier in Oregon | Heading towards the first point | Looking Northwest from the point south of the Middle Sister summit |
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| Looking at the final scramble to the summit. | The scramble to the summit looks worse than it is | The final ascent was slippery and steep, be careful |
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| Steve looks down the southwestern cliffs | Do not go that way | Nearing the summit, we have come a long way |
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| We made it to the Summit! About 10,350ft. | img_0572.jpg | Anna stood on this rock 3000 feet in the air, CRAZY. |
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| I gave Jocelyn a ring! | Steve on top of the world | South Sister, Broken Top, and Bachelor |
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| Steve, Jesse, Aaron, Matt, Anna and Jocelyn | Looking West towards our camp, Can you find it? | The people in Orange were spreading ashes of their son/brother who died on one of the glaciers below |
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| Time to descend, check out the wicked North Sister | img_0583.jpg | img_0585.jpg |
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| stop at a glacial tarn for a drink of the worlds best water | img_0589.jpg | It got much worse than this |
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| Steve was skiing in his boots really fast | Aaah. Back at Arrowhead Lake camp | img_0594.jpg |
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| Steve and Jesse have to work on monday, bye. | img_0597.jpg | Sunday night we hike to the Sister Springs |
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| The springs come out of the rock, ice cold and clear | The springs create Obsidian Waterfall | Sunday night sunset |
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| On monday Jocelyn and I started hiking North towards the car | We chose Matthiew Lakes for our final camp in the wilderness. | img_0609.jpg |
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| img_0615.jpg | img_0616.jpg | We are about to leave the wilderness, smooch. |
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| img_0619.jpg | Big beetle on the trail | North Sister and Middle Sister from the highway |
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| Matt and Boomer slide down a glacier | ||