Mt. Dickerman

Our most recent adventure was to tackle Mt. Dickerson in Washington state. It was pretty tough, but well worth it! The first two miles are all up gruelling mountain side and rises at a pretty fast rate. But once you pass over this amazing water fall, things start to become easier. There is a meadow type section that runs for about 1/2 to 1 mile. This is when the snow came, and the meadow was still pretty much all undersnow when we went about two weeks ago. I hear it is full of berries and wildflowers in August (we are totally going back because I really want to see it in bloom) and a great place to have a huckleberry snack. Then comes the final scramble to the top. It's not much of a "scramble", but it does get tough again. We were traveling the last mile and a half on a snow field and through patchy snow, so this was a true challenge. You take one step up and another half a step back in melting snow. The top was worth every drop of sweat! We could see all the way up to Mt. Baker and all the way down to Mt. Rainier, plus tons of snowy peaks in between. It was beautiful. We had a lot of fun too, identifing plants and flowers along the way.