Clever Hiker: Three Fingered Jack Loop Backpacking Guide
Clever Hiker: Three Fingered Jack Loop Backpacking Guide
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A review of the highlights and lowlights, as well as tips for hiking the Three Fingered Jack Loop.
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Three Fingered Jack Loop Backpacking Guide
This moderately easy, short loop around Three Fingered Jack offers nearly unending mountain and lake views. You’ll not only get up close and personal with craggy Three-Fingered Jack as you circumnavigate the peak, but you’ll also catch glimpses of the surrounding Cascade Range volcanoes around every corner.
Over half of the route coincides with the Pacific Crest National Scenic Trail, which tends to be well-graded and maintained. And since it’s less than 24 miles, this trip is doable in just a couple of days. Most of the trail traverses land ravaged by the B&B Complex Wildfire in 2005.
Continue reading to learn more, written by Heather Eldridge.
Three Fingered Jack Loop Backpacking Guide
This moderately easy, short loop around Three Fingered Jack offers nearly unending mountain and lake views. You’ll not only get up close and personal with craggy Three-Fingered Jack as you circumnavigate the peak, but you’ll also catch glimpses of the surrounding Cascade Range volcanoes around every corner.
Over half of the route coincides with the Pacific Crest National Scenic Trail, which tends to be well-graded and maintained. And since it’s less than 24 miles, this trip is doable in just a couple of days. Most of the trail traverses land ravaged by the B&B Complex Wildfire in 2005.
Continue reading to learn more, written by Heather Eldridge.
Three Fingered Jack Loop Backpacking Guide
This moderately easy, short loop around Three Fingered Jack offers nearly unending mountain and lake views. You’ll not only get up close and personal with craggy Three-Fingered Jack as you circumnavigate the peak, but you’ll also catch glimpses of the surrounding Cascade Range volcanoes around every corner.
Over half of the route coincides with the Pacific Crest National Scenic Trail, which tends to be well-graded and maintained. And since it’s less than 24 miles, this trip is doable in just a couple of days. Most of the trail traverses land ravaged by the B&B Complex Wildfire in 2005.
Continue reading to learn more, written by Heather Eldridge.
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