McGregor Mountain — Wednesday, Aug. 13, 2025

We knew we weren't going to make it to the top, but we wanted to go high enough to see some views--and we did that. We took the first bus of the day up-valley and arrived at High Bridge trailhead at 9:00. The hike was great and consistent with the description in the trail report. We hiked up five miles (about 4000 feet elevation gain), had lunch and then headed down. We were just short of where Howard Creek crosses the trail. In hindsight, we should have tried to go a little faster and farther and had that as our turnaround point. In any event, we made it back to High Bridge by 5:15 in plenty of time to catch the 6:15 bus back down the valley. We talked to one young PCT hiker who was taking the bus to the civilization of the Stehkin Landing. He had a very small pack and said he sometimes covered 40 miles in one day! We also talked to Ranger Stan who lives in the cool historic house at High Bridge. He was very nice and a great source of information.