Thursday, December 26, 2013
Cape Lookout - 26 Dec 2013
Leslie and I went out to Cape Lookout to check out the migrating whales. The weather was clear and near 50s...a great day for December. We saw lots of whales but most were a ways out.
Wednesday, December 25, 2013
Cooper Spur via Polallie ridge hike - July 12, 2013
A hike up to Cooper Spur via the Polallie Ridge trail #643 with Bruce Allan. The idea was to assess the washed out Timberline trail for a possible circumnavigation later in the year.
We would usually approach this hike by driving up to Cloud Cap and taking off from the Tilly Jane Campground. However, the area is heavily burned from the Dollar Lake fire in Aug-Sept 2011and there are dead trees falling all over the 9 mile access road to Cloud Cap so the FS has closed the road. So this meant that we start at the trailhead 3 miles below Tilly Jane and get in a bit extra hiking.
For change, we decided to hike up the Polallie Ridge trail and found it to be a nice hike. The canyon is impressive in places and there were not too many dead falls blocking the trail.
We would usually approach this hike by driving up to Cloud Cap and taking off from the Tilly Jane Campground. However, the area is heavily burned from the Dollar Lake fire in Aug-Sept 2011and there are dead trees falling all over the 9 mile access road to Cloud Cap so the FS has closed the road. So this meant that we start at the trailhead 3 miles below Tilly Jane and get in a bit extra hiking.
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