{"id":37607,"date":"2025-09-05T12:44:39","date_gmt":"2025-09-05T12:44:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/goatbells.blog\/?p=37607"},"modified":"2025-09-05T12:44:41","modified_gmt":"2025-09-05T12:44:41","slug":"smoke-t-storms-from-maiden-peak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/goatbells.blog\/?p=37607","title":{"rendered":"Smoke & T-storms from Maiden Peak"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Odd weather continued with fires burning around Sisters (Flat Fire), south of Diamond Peak (Emigrant) and new ones surfacing as more thunderstorms rolled through. Wednesday, I headed to Willamette Pass for a PCT day hike that didn’t require a permit, and obviously going Northbound (NOBO) from the pass rather than head directly toward Emigrant fire.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While driving to Willamette Pass rain sprinkled a couple of times, but I never turned on wipers; on the way, home however, it rained from the TH down the hill a couple of miles then stopped. At the end of hike, I went south toward Shelter Cove for a mile or so and from an outcropping the poor weather was clear.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Route<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Started at PCT TH (north side of Hwy 58) leaving with headlamp around 6:00am. Up PCT to northern leg of Maiden Peak Tr, then up Maiden Peak and down to Maiden Lake Trail and back to PCT. Passed car and Hwy 58 and went on unwalked section south toward Pengra Pass, and then back to car.<\/p>\n\n\n