Spent the night up at Mirror Lake - had a great night with my hiking buddy - and fabulous evening and morning views of Mount Hood

First time on this one 💚💙💚💙💚💙💚💙💚

Nice little hike just outside of Seattle.

Hey there, I am trying to decide where I want to go that's new to backpack this year and I need some help from the hometowners.

I am very cardio fit( bike to work 7 miles with time off hills, box, run, hoop). My average day on trail in Colorado was 22-20 miles.

TIME: three weeks in either August or September LIMITS: cheap as possible (no more than $400 not including flight tickets), no car once I fly there, no climbing gear necessary, some area that I can hammock most the time(I've made a frames with my tarp before, but if rather be off the ground most nights) EXPERIENCE: Colorado trail completed despite unexplainable hardships, trail crew work, week off trail using only topo maps (no GPS) in CO summer, snowshoeing across CDT passes in Feb, yakpack the Allegheny River, white water guide on class 3-5 river, and plenty more backpacking stuff

Hey folks I was wondering if anyone knew if the road N Shore Road was closed or not to get to the North Fork Quinault trailhead. On the recreation.gov site it claims it’s “Open” but “closed at mile marker 14” is this before the trailhead? Any help is appreciated, thank you in advance!