Dog Wind Table Hamilton & Beacon 9-10-11

[Eric Peterson]

This was supposed to be a Mt. Hood 1 day around hood hike, but what with the fires and all
we had to change it up and do something different.

Behold! I give you the DWTHB all in one day loony hike!

Met up with Guy, Cascadehiker and Mayhem right around 5:00 am @ Dog MT. to
start the pentuplet.

Mayhem and 3 lights, 5:20 am

Made pretty good time being fresh from getting up at 3:15 and not eating anything yet.

Since we had our headlamps on and it was still pretty dark I was able to spot a cougar
to left of us as we headed up. First I heard some rustling then I saw the glow of
the cats eyes, close together and NOT running off. CH was just ahead of me and
notified him so he could also witness it. Mayhem and Guy were far enough ahead
that they missed the glow of it's eyes.

Here we are at the junction that has a nice viewpoint -

And here we are at the top of Dog, 1 hour and 15 I think -

Top of Dog

I jetted down not realizing the sun hadn't come up yet and missed viewing it
with my other trail friends.

Sunrise

So I was pretty much jogging down trying to do a DN, I had my trail running shoes for this
loony hike today, and was far enough ahead of the other guys since they stopped
to take pix of the sunrise that I thought it would be funny to make cat sounds as if I
were being eaten. I don't think the guys heard me but the cougar from earlier sure did!
The cat was still in the same area and I saw it this time jaunting off a bit to get more
under cover. I stopped got the camera out and waited for my trail friends. Sorry, no
pictures unfortunately.

Round trip for Dog was 2 hours.

Headed over to Wind MT.

I parked right at the TH but the others parked up a above, they got a little more EG for the
day than I did.

Indian pits on Wind

View from Wind

Group on Wind

Now on to Table.

Parked at the Hot Springs Resort and refueled at our coolers. I think we headed out
at around 9:30 and took the Dick Thomas 'home made trail'.

I'm making a T before we even got up to the top, probably getting silly already at this point...

At the kiosk taking a breather and I'm dreading the steep section of the HBR trail -

Dreadn' it . . .

Lagging behind the other 3 legends

You know what this is

CH and guy playing around in the bushes again...

Got a few pictures of the area where Don had scrambled up a steep chimney and almost
climbed over, on a hike a few months ago with him and his son Paul.


Don's chimney 1

I believe the chute terminates in the brush up towards the right, Don can fill us in to be more
precise since he was the one right at the top almost ready to go up and into this brush -


Don's chimney chute 2

Heading up the silly talus slope -

Mayhem taking picture of the little specs coming up the slope...

Newer signage on Table -


Signage

Some views from the top of Table -


Fire still going strong over there...


Steep 1


Steep 2



Group shot on Table


Heading down the boulder field...

Headed back down Table using the same route up, this boulder field sucks eggs going down.
Meet a HUGE church group as we headed down. I think 2 out of 20 had water bottles
but one kid had a .22 that he said he was going to use for target practice. Super nice
group of kids that couldn't believe a group of old guys was in the middle of a loony
mega hike.


Down BF 2 and church group heading up...

This part was awesome, cooling off on a branch of Cedar Creek, still flowing nicely!


CH cooling off


CH cooling off 2


Guy cooling off


Mayhem cooling off


Mayhem cooling off 2


Eric cooling off

Movie made by Mayhem with us cooling off -



Next up Hamilton!

Man, this 5 hike thing was getting VERY hard for me now at this point and I really
kinda wanted to take the bail out easier way up. Guy said no way dude and almost
beat me up for even mentioning the 'wussier' way.


Hamilton group shot...


CH killing it up Hamilton


Pool of winds, almost jumped in!


I wanted to use the easier trail but...


Guy said no way and beat me up again...


Cascade taking a piss break...

I forgot that Hamilton had more EG when I saw this part, but luckily doesn't
have a dreaded section like over on Table.


View from Ham area


Ham summit


There's Table from Hamilton...

I finally made it up just in time for the group shot and to turn around and head back down...


Hammy group shot...

Last hike for the day, Beacon Rock -


On to the last stop of the day, Beacon...


Beacon ice gate...


Beacon sunset


Mayhem failed to take a Beacon group shot on the top, waiting for Guy's picture of the group shot...

I believe this mega hike was 25 miles and 10,200' for me and another 100 or so
for the other 3 guys as they had a little more over on Wind from parking further
from the official TH parking area.

Fun day guys

[Peder]

Man, this 5 hike thing was getting VERY hard for me now at this point and I really
kinda wanted to take the bail out easier way up. Guy said no way dude and almost
beat me up for even mentioning the 'wussier' way.

You guys are tough - well done! I love the pictures where you are all cooling off in Cedar Creek. The stairs on Beacon Rock must have been murder...

[mayhem]

Man, this 5 hike thing was getting VERY hard for me now at this point and I really
kinda wanted to take the bail out easier way up. Guy said no way dude and almost
beat me up for even mentioning the 'wussier' way.

You guys are tough - well done! I love the pictures where you are all cooling off in Cedar Creek. The stairs on Beacon Rock must have been murder...

As Tom/Roy Would say & should trade mark or whatever? (It Was Like Being In a Recliner)

[mayhem]

What an AWESOME!!! Hike with Mythical Legends!
I'm a little bit loud an obnoxious so I hope I did not offend my trail friends, but this was amazing! We all made it on a very hot day & Eric was the only one to almost get beat up

[Eric Peterson]

(It Was Like Being In a Recliner)

Yeah, I need a recliner today, can barely walk to the fridge for beer...

[chameleon]

Wow. Talk about an endurance marathon. Quite an achievement guys! And you all look pretty happy doing it! Also, very cool about the cougar.

-Zach

[Charley]

Yall are taking it to new levels with these hikes! What gets me is having to get into the car and drive somewhere to get started all over again. The temptation to call it quits would be so great. Props!

[Crusak]

Five trails with over 10k elevation gain in one day...

That certainly dwarfs my big hiking accomplishment yesterday.

I noticed that mayhem was the only one still wearing his backpack when you guys went up Beacon - I think he keeps some secret anti-gravity pod in there. I'm certain of it.

Cougar sighting = very cool. I'm always looking over my shoulder when I go solo, fully expecting to see one myself.

Nice work guys!

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Yall are taking it to new levels with these hikes! What gets me is having to get into the car and drive somewhere to get started all over again. The temptation to call it quits would be so great. Props!

hahaha yes, that would be very tempting.

[Roy]

This was supposed to be a Mt. Hood 1 day around
Fun day guys

This is like daja vu I did the same trip right after my son was born .My wife sent me out of the house and I was headed for Adams then I stopped at Dog and got this loony idea .It was not so hot then I started Table at the dam so maybe it was a push.

Times were nothing like yours. The only multi peak hike I ever did other than that was the three sisters must have been the lack of sleep from the newborn


ROY

[Guy]

Thanks for writing this up with your usual trademark humor Eric.

Here is the final summit group photo that I asked that guy to take for us! Probably wondering why 4 guys look so beat up just from climbing Beacon Rock (Probably thought we were all Wusses!).



It was a good day, we all made it, nobody was shot by the kid with the 22 or eaten by the cougar (even though I slipped that open tin of tuna & catnip in Mayhem's pack).