Cathedral Rock — Sunday, Jul. 16, 2017

Beautiful hike today with a friend and his dog.  The scenery starts long before you hit the trail.  Though the road is rough it's passable and Chatter Creek is 1-1 1/2 ft. deep.  The trail has long switchbacks on an easy grade.  A few blowdowns easily crossed otherwise straight forward with a small detour trail at the back of Squaw Lake right before climbing.  Make sure you go back down to the trail instead of continuing up.  The latter section climbs a little more steeply while occasionally crossing meadows dotted with tarns until you finally crest a small ridge and are face to face with Cathedral Rock, but don't stop yet!  If you've come this far go to the PCT junction and go left 0.3 to reach the Peggy's Pond Trail junction.  The rocks surrounding this ridge provides amazing views of Mount Hinman and Mt. Daniel.