[SE Ben]

Looking for partners for a 4 or 5 day trip to the Wallowas sometime between Sept 6 and Sept 20. Weather at night is usually still warm, but usually there's been a cold night already and the mosquitoes are gone. I've done the East-Fork-Wallowa-River-Polaris Pass and the West Fork Wallowa routes into the Lakes Basin. I'd gladly do the Polaris Pass entry again since I got chased off the mountain by a thunderstorm the time I did it and didn't get to see anything beyond the trail 5' in front of me. I'd like to pay the $31 to take the Mt Howard tramway up from Wallowa Lake and then do the traverse to Aneroid Mt. Also open to doing a Lostine-Minam loop or some other non-Lakes Basin trip... or your suggestion. I'd like to do a shakedown hike or overnight trip the week after Labor Day with potential Wallowas trail partners to make sure we're ready for a longer trip together. But we can figure it out online and on the phone, if necessary. One possibility -- we could do a Mt Hood hike as a shakedown and then overnight at a friend's house near Hood before we continue on to the Wallowas. Facebook and Portland Meetup hiking profiles available on request.