Continuing from last week's idea, four of us started from route 40 at Donner Pass, heading south on the PCT. We headed up to Mt. Judah after detouring to gain the top of Donner Summit. That took a little rock climbing at the top. A couple of young guys had come up the north side free climbing without ropes and were surprised to find us on top. They had never been on the peak and didn't know there was a trail to the top.
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| Heading to Donner Peak |
We went on to climb the long trail to the top of Judah. There, we met more hikers happy to be out in the spectacular weather. Judah is higher than Donner but Lincoln tops them all. Not wanting to lose elevation, we lingered for lunch at Roller Pass before figuring out how we were going to ascend Lincoln.
After lunch we headed cross country for a short way to gain access to the Sugar Bowl Service Road. We followed it to the top, noting the signs for advanced ski runs that looked like the skiers would be headed into thin air. On the top was a guy on a small excavator preparing the trails. To us it looked like he was putting himself in great danger to groom them. We could see the Coast Range and the newly started Applegate Fire.
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| From Donner Peak |
After much exploring, we headed down on the south side to intersect the PCT as it finishes crossing the east face of Lincoln. From that intersection we returned on the marvelous PCT. We had hiked 9 miles with a total elevation gain of 2K ft.
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| Looking over to Mt. Judah |
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| Top of Donner |
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| From Donner |
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| From Lincoln |
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