When I met Kirk I discovered the beauty of walking up creeks. The more mountainous, the more interesting...sometimes. A few weekends ago we decided to go check out Linton Creek which runs into Linton Lake on the West side of Middle Sister. It surely was not packraftable, but I had hopes for the upper meadows...if we could get far enough there could be some amazing boating opportunities upstream.
Meanwhile I am discovering the joys of mapping trip tracks on Google Earth. I have been using the Trimble Outdoors Navigator App to create tracks on some of our hiking/skiing/boating trips this year, but didn't think to export the tracks to Google Earth till now. Wow.
This is an overview of the area.
We didn't bring boats, it was merely to be a backpacking/bushwack trip along the creek.
The trail in was quite pleasent
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| I wanted to swim |
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But kept hiking
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until we could spash around here
we were in for a CLIMB.
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But we did see waterfalls!
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And on top we encountered....
Marsh
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And bugs
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| We did find some relief back on the creek |
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But camp was nothing to take a picture of.
This particular bushwack, while having a few shiny moments over the whole weekend, was something I won't repeat. Next time I'll try and reach these meadows
from the upper trails!
