[PaleoCook]

Mt. Washington 1/15/2017 || 9.25mi || 3,664 Elevation Gain || Total Time: 5:30 Links to GPS, Flickr, and Hillmap at the bottom. Mt. Washington is a beautiful trail. I got started early and was the 2nd car in the lot at around 6:30am. The lot has packed snow and ice along with a few small ruts. Nothing bad. There were several cars parked along the road when I left if you don’t feel comfortable driving into the lot. Hiking up was smooth and I just wore microspikes for most of the way.

Road to trailhead

Near the summit, I made a wrong turn, or missed a turn rather, and put on my snowshoes for a short way. After coming across a few no trespassing signs for the Cedar River Watershed area I checked the map and sure enough was on a, well…not the trail. I backtracked due north and met back up with the trail, and shortly thereafter the summit.

Wrong turn

There were a few campers sleeping in a clearly marked snow pit at the summit. I grabbed a few pictures and made a few new friends as a couple other hikers came up. We all ended up hiking down together, minus the campers, who were still sleeping when we left the summit. It was a quick descent with a few fun glissades in the soft snow. Several other parties were heading up as we were heading down. A great day on the mountain.

Garmin GPX (from GPSMAP 64s): https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B0IZI1HQDlPuMEJfTm5DSUFERms/view?usp=sharing Garmin GPS (from Vivoactive HR): https://connect.garmin.com/modern/activity/1527359062 Hillmap: http://www.hillmap.com/m/ag1zfmhpbGxtYXAtaGRychULEghTYXZlZE1hcBiAgIDIsIiuCww Flickr: https://www.flickr.com/gp/147595416@N03/541v05 WTA: http://www.wta.org/go-hiking/trip-reports/trip_report.2017-01-15.0291715980

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