Overnighter to test out some hammock stuff. starting from icehouse canyon TH sometime today.
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My goal for the weekend was to test my hammock, setting it + the tarp up, sleeping in it and etc. However i couldn't find my knife, and thus ended up hiking without a knife. having brough 30+ feet of cordage that i intended to cut to the appropriate lengths meant that the setting up tarp goal of the trip was an epic bust. However everything else went pretty smoothly, the new shoes i was using Altra lone peak 1.5 were really comfortable.
I started hiking around 3pm on saturday after taking some hikers back to their car at manker flats. Due to flooding the week before the trail is washed out in many places. I took the cedar glen trail instead of the regular ice house canyon trail thinking that this would avoid most of the trail damage (this climbs up immediately and traverses to the saddle). The washed out areas on the trail are all really well marked with lots of trail tape. Past the cedar glen campsite the trail traverses over to the saddle, and here there were tons of flood damaged chutes. For the most part they're easy to get around, but there are some unsafe spots, the sediment left over in the chutes is actually really firm (i thought it would be soft), kind of reminiscent of avalanche debris, but is really slick.
I hit the saddle around 6pm and continued up to timber mountain. On the summit ridge of the mountain were tons of well situated trees so i just set up here. Due to the full (super?) moon, it was really bright, so i did not sleep as well as i would have liked, however that was going to happen just about anywhere. In the morning i decided not to go to telegraph and thunder, and just hiked out instead. On the way out i took the icehouse trail instead of the cedar glen. This trail is easier to follow for the most part, except for one HUGE washout near where the trail departs the creekbed and starts climbing.
Fortunately for me, there were some timely hikers coming up so i followed their voices to find the trail.
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