[pct-l] glacier peak detour

[conniedavis at earthlink.net (Connie Davis)]

My son and I did the Glacier Peak detour on our Flip-Flop of the PCT 
this year.

The Napeequa Valley was my favorite place on the whole trail--amazingly 
beautiful.  We did it on June 23rd, including the three fords (Chiwawa 
River, Napeequa and Boulder Creek) and about 5600 ft of elevation gain, 
which is similar to what we did on at least one day in the Sierras in 
September. photo at http://www.trailjournals.com/entry.cfm?id=105757

As always, conditions on the streams/rivers (especially the glacier fed 
Napeequa) vary widely by year, month, day and time of day.  We had no 
trouble with the fords at the time of day and place we chose to ford.  
Who knows what next year will bring!

We had been told the detour was similar to the John Muir Trail in 
character and now that I've been on the JMT, I suppose it is true.

Lookout
aka Connie Davis
Olympia, WA