jayhat
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Planned to go on a short backpacking trip this weekend to a place called Blue Lake (7 miles each way). Friend and I set out Saturday morning. Got a late start, got a little lost a couple times, finally found the camp ground where the trail head was. Then we had to hunt for the trail head, finally found where that was, and set out.
Somehow during the hike my watch got bumped to the second time option (can set it for dual time zones or whatever), so it was almost 2 hours ahead. It’s a newer watch, compass, altimeter thing – So I don’t really know all of its features. Mid hike I checked the time, I was like “holy shit dude it’s almost 3”. We were trying to figure out how the **** we spent almost 2 hours ****ing around at the campground. Anyway we hiked a few miles in then then turned around and went back. We got back to the campground around 5 (or so we thought).
Decided if we were going to “car camp”, we’d just go back to the nearest town, get better food (not Mt. House meals), beer, etc. Once I was in the 4Runner and started driving back I looked at the clock and realized we ****ed up (it was 3ish:lmao
. After driving all the way back to the town, we just decided to eat in town, grab some beers, and find a camp site closer to town…. All campgrounds were ****ing full! On the way in we had saw some non-sanctioned camping/fishing area along the Columbia. We decided to go back there, private property - no camping. At this point we just said **** it and left.
Fail weekend. Anyway here are a few pics. About 1.5 miles in there is an awesome view of Mt. Adams.
Columbia River Gorge @ Stonehenge
Mt. Hood in the distance
Stonehenge
Getting closer to the trail head - Mt. Adams
The Runner
Badass view of Mt. Adams
Somehow during the hike my watch got bumped to the second time option (can set it for dual time zones or whatever), so it was almost 2 hours ahead. It’s a newer watch, compass, altimeter thing – So I don’t really know all of its features. Mid hike I checked the time, I was like “holy shit dude it’s almost 3”. We were trying to figure out how the **** we spent almost 2 hours ****ing around at the campground. Anyway we hiked a few miles in then then turned around and went back. We got back to the campground around 5 (or so we thought).
Decided if we were going to “car camp”, we’d just go back to the nearest town, get better food (not Mt. House meals), beer, etc. Once I was in the 4Runner and started driving back I looked at the clock and realized we ****ed up (it was 3ish:lmao
. After driving all the way back to the town, we just decided to eat in town, grab some beers, and find a camp site closer to town…. All campgrounds were ****ing full! On the way in we had saw some non-sanctioned camping/fishing area along the Columbia. We decided to go back there, private property - no camping. At this point we just said **** it and left.Fail weekend. Anyway here are a few pics. About 1.5 miles in there is an awesome view of Mt. Adams.
Columbia River Gorge @ Stonehenge
Mt. Hood in the distance
Stonehenge
Getting closer to the trail head - Mt. Adams
The Runner
Badass view of Mt. Adams
