Mount Bachelor

Actually, the lift wasn't running, but we passed the upper lift building near the end of the moderately strenuous hike. Bachelor isn't the prettiest of

Beautiful hike with the Bend Hiking Meetup. 10 people signed up. 10 showed up. 10 summited. One short snowfield to cross, but traction not required.

Couple patches of snow that made it challenging to decipher where the trail went but figured it out.  Someone had painted white directional  arrows which

Park outside of the coned off area at the entrance, all of the vehicles had tickets on the windshields that was parked inside the cones.

We returned from our defeat the day before, hungry for a successful summit. This time, we brought all the requisite gear for safe ascent; microspikes,

Still no open “normal “ route.  Went straight up from the lodge.