Mt Hood - Northeast Side

Nate and I spent this past weekend at Mount Hood! We left the car at the Cloudcap Inn and hiked in on the Cooper Spur trail... The plan was to do some skiing on the northest side near the Elliot glacier. Since the weather was warm but cloudy we had a great hike in. The clouds cleared up so that when we got close to Hood and we had great views of the whole mountain. We found a sweet spot to set up camp in some rocks near the Elliot Glacier and had amazing views on all sides. Bella spent the next few hours staring at rocks patiently waiting for snaffles while Nate and I explored and played around on the boulders. After eating dinner we headed out for a hike south on the Timberline trail towards Timberline and Mt. Hood Meadows. We got back from our hike in time to watch the sun set and stayed up to watch the full moon rise. We woke up the next morning and skinned up to the flat part of the Elliot glacier. There was a lot less snow that Nate anticipated so there weren't many options for skiing good runs. We had a short ski back down and passed a waterfall in the glacier on the way. For my first backcountry ski trip it couldn't have been a better experience. We started our hike out late afternoon Sunday and made it back to the car in time to make it to Calamity Jane's for burgers on the way home.

First View!

View from the front yard...

Bella looking as cute as ever!

Okay, enough on the captions... The rest is self explanatory! :)