Black Crater

We had an early start, (5:30 a.m.) which afforded us beautiful weather a sunrise through the trees and saw no one on the trail until

We celebrated Independence Day bagging our 3rd Peak!  There was a fair amount of snow crossings at about a mile from the summit, but we

Mostly burned trees through half of hike up. Then got through burn area, hit snow, only knew where trail was with AllTrails- instead of side

The weather, views and first 2.5 miles were A+! The last mile and 700 vert was snow covered and the trail was buried. We were

This was one of my favorite hikes on the list to climb. There was still a spots where there was a lot of snow. It

Started trail with new growth through all the old burn . Zigzagged to hit snow on trail. Had yaks but definitely could have used poles!!!