183 is the South Spur route (aka the dog route) from cold creek camp ground up Mount Adams.
The spring flowers were out in abundance around 7,000ft...
...but the landscape soon dried out.
The hike in gave us some time to practice poses for the summit photo...
...and to see how tall Martin is.
The first snow field was a welcome change from rocks and gravel
but it didn't half go on, and on, and on
until eventually we reached the lunch counter @ just over 9,000ft and found a stone wall to pitch the tent behind (out of the wind so long as you kept below 2ft) and a sunset above the clouds...
...which made for good piccy's :-)
Next day was a slow sicky slog up past piker's peak...
...to the top
where a miners hut remains,
and then a more rapid decent, pausing for views of St Helens and Mount Hood in the distance.
For the interested, the
picture that started it
, and
more on flickr
.
Enormous thanks to Chris and Martin for getting us all up and down safe and sound.
Note: This post was updated on 2020-11-22 to fix broken links