Cady Ridge — Saturday, Jul. 3, 2021

We hiked Cady Ridge.  Lots of water along the first third of the trail.  Once the trail starts climbing in earnest, the water disappears.  There was still quite a bit of snow along the final third of the trail.  There were a couple smaller patches that we had to climb around as they were along a steep hillside but it was all doable.  Once we got to the top, at around 5500 feet in elevation there was still quite a bit of snow.  Where there wasn’t snow though the avalanche lilies were out in force, more than I have ever seen.  In places it was just a sea of yellow.  Looking out ahead towards the PCT there was a bunch of snow there as well.  Since the PCT is along a steep hillside there it did not look safe to go onto the PCT since we didn’t have an ice ax, crampons or even micro spikes.  There were a few bugs but they weren’t too bad.