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Mount St. Helens - Monitor Ridge — Tuesday, Aug. 13, 2024

South Cascades > Mount St. Helens
Mount Adams atop the clouds

The conditions are already well covered in recent reports, but I wanted to give my time for any day trip planners. Reading the trip reports got me worried for nothing.

I'm in pretty good shape and it took me 2:45 up and 2:45 down (while wasting 30 minutes getting lost in the fog at one point). I'm not trying to be an elitist or brag but don't get worried about people in their trip reports taking 8+ hours if you are in good condition. I have all the respect to those people for making it to the top in the first place. It's a great achievement.

I hike once or twice a week usually on 8-10 mile hikes with decent elevation and pace, and it was much less of a challenge than what I was expecting.

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