To celebrate my birthday today the best thing I could think of was to take a hike. The Duckabush River Trail to Big Hump turned out to be a great choice for this season. Even the road to the trailhead was better than I had ever seen it. We wondered why only our side of the road was so smooth until we met up with the road grader who was coming down smoothing out the other side. Ours was the only car at the trailhead when we arrived, and later we saw one other couple who passed us as we had a snack by the river at 2.4 miles, and then two other couples on our return to the car. It's great to have this kind of solitude. The trail is in excellent shape all the way. There's no snow all the way to the top of Big Hump, and the views from our lunchspot there were very nice of the surrounding peaks, including St. Peter's Dome, which was lightly covered with snow on its upper slopes. It's about 3.8 miles to the top of Big Hump.
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