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On Sunday we went up to the Mt Jefferson Wilderness and did
the Canyon Creek loop trail. The trail
traverses in and out through burnt forest from the B&B Complex fire in
2003. It�s two miles to the lower
meadow, 0.7 to the upper meadow, and another 0.5 miles to the lookout on a
saddle on Three Fingered Jack.. The plan was to hike up to the lower meadow to
set up some tarps and net shelters for a couple companies, then hike up to the
upper meadow (to a cirque pond) at the base of Three Fingered Jack if we had
time.
After setting up a couple shelters and talking with a nice
woman, who was hiking with her dog (while her dog and Gaius played heartily),
we ran out of time and had to skip the upper meadow and lookout. I told my
better half about the loop and she�s excited to go and do it. We plan on doing
it next Saturday going all the way to the top.
Over Three Fingered Jack you could see the Cascade Crest
Complex (was Puzzle Fire) plume over around Pamelia Lake.
Throughout the whole area is burnt, dead trees with new
ground foliage popping up, especially concentrated around the creek you follow
on the way out.
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