Second day out on the trail from BLYC and things are going quite well for the most part. First off, the scenery here in the Three Sisters Wilderness is Fantastic. I only hope our pictures capture a fraction of the beauty. We're making good time too, all things considered. Made 19.5mi on the first day, stopping about 2 hours early. Made only 17.9 mi today, but there was tons of snow - probably spent 70% of the day hiking on snow. To top it off, it rained off and on all day today. We're feeling quite soggy at the moment.
We got our first glimpse into California yesterday. From the slopes of Mt. Washington we could make out Mt. Shasta in northern California. Sure it's probably ~300 miles away, but we can at least see it!
Some fascinating volcano geology in the Three Sisters region. South Sister itself has over 24 kinds of volcanic rock. Today we saw just about the full spectrum, passing through particulary nice obsidian flows and some impressive pumice fields on the Wickup Plain. Rock Mesa looked like a gigantic tiday wave of rock, frozen in place and towering 400 ft above the trail.Tomorrow we leave the Sisters behind us (and hopefully the snow) and drop down to several large lake filled basins. It's probably going to be very buggy there - hopefully the insect repellent will last!
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