b_dugo: running around diamond lake
b_dugo: crossed the pct
b_dugo: eating snow
b_dugo: cascade china plate scramble
b_dugo: the only place outside of the np that you can see crater lake's water
b_dugo: north
b_dugo: admiring the vertical exposure and choking down my summit fever as the wind threatens to blow me off
b_dugo: down to the next one across the lake!
b_dugo: inadvertently captured the look of type 2 fun as another storm hits as a i summited bailey...wet and freezing and being pummeled by wind!
b_dugo: and of course it clears up when i'm heading back down
b_dugo: thielsen window and wind tunnel
b_dugo: two craters
b_dugo: woo, not dead! so epic! 6831 feet of elevation gain in 25.4 miles with storms on both summits!
b_dugo: mount thielsen mount bailey traverse
b_dugo: forest service being cheeky
b_dugo: time to shed some layers
b_dugo: beren jumped in immediately despite the freezing howling wind
b_dugo: i really wanted to touch the east face
b_dugo: the most precarious position of the day
b_dugo: above jack glacier
b_dugo: look at those zigzagging dikes!
b_dugo: last day of summer before the snow fell
b_dugo: out of my league
b_dugo: lying blissed out on a crash pad watching the forest get dark and the stars appear. what a satisfying day to end the summer. bring on the snow!
b_dugo: happy time in the sun
b_dugo: and then things went badhappy time in the sun
b_dugo: that moment of despair when you're slowly freezing to death at 6600 feet, and when you finally top out you see that the ridge you're supposed to be on is a mile away as the bird flies over treacherous icy terrain
b_dugo: beren was our pathfinder when we couldn't find the trail buried under the snow, good boy!
b_dugo: not going to die after all
b_dugo: trail running is awesome!