Hiking in Snow at the End of June - June 25, 2006

It was a very hot day when we decided to head up to the top of Mount Thompson to cool down and check out a couple of Geocaches that were up there. We brought a couple of our friends along with their dog Mowgli with us. It took us about 45 minutes to drive up the logging road and about 4 hours round trip to hike from the top of Mt. Thompson along the ridge-line to another mountian top where there is an aircraft navigation tower and a geocache.

For all of those who don't know what a geocache is you can check out www.geocaching.com for a bit more info. Basically it is a container that someone sticks some junk in, hides and posts the coordinates online, where then someone like me finds the coordinates and takes their handheld GPS unit and goes out and tries to find. When you find the cache, you log in a notebook that you were there, and you are suppose to take something and leave something.

Devon, Blaine and Scott at the top of Mt. Thompson with the Creston Valley in the background

We encountered our first snowbank about 20 minutes into the hike. In the back ground is the ridge-line we just came down.

Another huge snow drift (alot of fun to slide down on your butt)

Scott and I on the top of this huge snow drift

Reaching the second peak where the aircraft navigation tower is

The aircraft navigation tower and Scott

Where we hiked from - the top of Mt. Thompson

We've reached the geocache - the southern part of the Creston Valley in the background