Looking to do something challenging i decided on Sulphur Mountain. With 10.5 miles of closed road to reach the trail head, then 4ish miles and 4700 feet of elevation gain on the trail...sounds like a backpacking trip. Nope. Day-hiked it. Bicycled in, spun like a mad man to the trail head in an effort to have enough day light for the hike. Some one wrote in sharpie on the trail head sign "bring H2O" This is no joke. I tanked up on 3 liters at the river. On such a hot day and a steep trail 3 liters really was not enough. I was really low on water when i reached the summit. Fortunately there was snow available and managed to collect a slow drip of melt water. There is a small stream crossing 1/4 mile in, too low on the trail to be useful, otherwise there is not a drop of water for collecting, unless there is snow, or you drop down on the other side to Sulphur lake.
Views from the summit are jaw dropping. The entire trail is in forest with no views. Views only open up around the last 200 vertical feet.
On the bicycle ride out i got a flat tire....had to ride on it.
According to the GPS i covered 28miles in 11.5 hours.
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