With good weather and wild fire smoke avoiding the west side of Three Sisters Wilderness and an Obsidian TH day hike permit … perfect. I started at TH around 6:00 went straight up Obsidian Trail. At one of the first burn scar clearings, sunrise came over the ridge on the knoll. Middle Sister quickly comes…
Our original backpacking plan was Tuesday-Saturday, but the Akawa Butte Fire (InciWeb) was dumping smoke into Three Sisters Wilderness and then a Red Alert for thunderstorms and possible additional fires in same area. We waited until after the Red Alert cleared and left Thursday morning for Devils Lake TH. Driving to the TH haze and…
With this year’s OR snowpack so far below averages, I was backpacking Three Sisters Wilderness 2 weeks earlier than any summer in last 10 years. Context on how this year fits into the last decade: the 2025–26 winter was one of the driest in the Cascades in years. Peak snow water equivalent in the Central…
Well folks, the original post for So Sister adventure was destroyed … and rather that try to recreate the same thing, I’ll do another one 🙂 For planning purposes leading up to this trip (July 28-31), weather reports from at least 5 services conflicted and contradicted each other; I’ve never seen such inconsistency in weather…
These photos were worth bringing back even though the hike review was lost. Three Sisters Wilderness is absolutely magical and I was there in August 2024 for 3 days during a full moon and clear skies. For geo-reference, the hike started at Obsidian TH then to PCT, over to Green Lakes and back with a…
