Update: Beware of ticks! I found couple ticks, 2 days after this hike, including one on my forearm. My hiking buddy found a tick when he got home. He found three more around his house with one on his back! Yuk!
Got to the Palisades trailhead by 9:30 am. Second car in the parking lot. Two more cars came in as we started hiking. Foggy morning and turned out nice before noon. Saw a couple and a dog on the way up and a lady on the way down. A quiet day on the trail.
It was nice listening to the sound of Dalles Creek. The first Dalles Creek crossing at 0.4 mile. No bridge but some stones which were easy to cross without getting wet. Plenty of water at the Lower Dalles Creek Falls. Several downed trees and needed to climb over couple of them.
Snow section after the second view point. We used micro-spikes to be safe. We stayed on the trail and was not hard to go up Little Ranger Peak. Got to top by 12:30 pm and able to see Mt. Rainier and the surrounding mountains. We added our names to a small paper inside the register. Next person to Little Ranger Peak: please bring some more papers for the register.
My hiking buddy found a tick crawled out of his hiking pants next morning! We should have checked for tick right after the hike!
AllTrails indicated 13 miles with 3009 feet elevation gain.
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