Five o’clock came around very quickly this morning, and the sound of rain outside my window didn’t make it any easier to roll out of bed. It had been way too long since I’d made it out for one of these early morning dawn patrols though, so I was going, regardless of the weather. Quick [...]
We thought we were in shape.
We were wrong.
The plan had been to get up and down the infamous hill outside of North Bend in around four hours, but it did end up taking just a bit longer than that. Carpooling to the trailhead, Dean, Mark, Beetle and I started up the gated road in a [...]