One of my favorite trails! I've included 5min of video highlights below..
Road: some potholes when the pavement ends near parking area but not bad at all.
Wildflowers: columbine, queen's cup, pearly everlasting, white heather, pink heather, cusick's speedwell, saxifrage, serviceberry, paintbrush, lupine, cushion buckwheat, lyall's angelica, martindale's desert parsley (white variant)
Trees: amazing transition from lower typical Cascade forest of doug fir & cedar to a richly varied upper forest of englemann spruce, larch, mtn hemlock, white pine, grand fir, pacific silver fir, lodgepole pine!
Wildfire: the Cedar Creek fire was sadly filling the skies East with mushroom clouds of smoke! (see photo)
Trail: 9 trees across trail spread throughout first 4 miles(see photo collage). All were 6-12in diameter except the upper right in photo which was almost 24in in diameter. They all had dangerous sharp stobs protruding so I hope no one gets hurt before the PCT Team has time to remove them.
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walker lee on Cutthroat Pass via the Pacific Crest Trail
Thanks for the video!!!
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walker lee on Aug 10, 2021 11:46 AM