I wanted to hike the long ridge, but the bugs drove me back down the mountain after I’d made only so far as Tongue Mountain. Bugs, and the realization I didn’t have enough water for the dozen or more miles to the next water. So I exited via the logging road and set up camp along the river. Here’s what I saw before I gave up…
Images taken July 3, 2023, along the Tongue Mountain Trail #294, Gifford Pinchot National Forest.
20.9 miles hiked over 2 days, with 3,744 feet elevation gain.
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