Rock hopping across a stream, circumnavigating Mount Hood's Timberline Trail, Portland, Oregon, USA.

We rock-hopped across many streams such as this one on the Pacific Crest Trail, which overlapped the Timberline Trail during our first two days of backpacking around Mt. Hood, near Portland, Oregon, USA — backpacking 42 miles with 9900 feet gain and loss. We began our clockwise 5-day hike at Timberline Lodge (a National Historic Landmark) and camped for four nights — at Paradise Park, McGee Creek, Cloud Cap Saddle Campground, and Clark Creek. At 11,249 feet, Mount Hood is the highest point in Oregon and the fourth highest peak in the Cascade Range. Mount Hood has been an active stratovolcano for at least 500,000 years in the Cascade Volcanic Arc, formed by a subduction zone on the Pacific coast. The mountain is known as Wy'East by the Multnomah Tribe of the Columbia River valley. This prominent peak is 50 miles east-southeast of Portland, on the border between Clackamas and Hood River counties.

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We rock-hopped across many streams such as this one on the Pacific Crest Trail, which overlapped the Timberline Trail during our first two days of backpacking around Mt. Hood, near Portland, Oregon, USA — backpacking 42 miles with 9900 feet gain and loss. We began our clockwise 5-day hike at Timberline Lodge (a National Historic Landmark) and camped for four nights — at Paradise Park, McGee Creek, Cloud Cap Saddle Campground, and Clark Creek. At 11,249 feet, Mount Hood is the highest point in Oregon and the fourth highest peak in the Cascade Range. Mount Hood has been an active stratovolcano for at least 500,000 years in the Cascade Volcanic Arc, formed by a subduction zone on the Pacific coast. The mountain is known as Wy'East by the Multnomah Tribe of the Columbia River valley. This prominent peak is 50 miles east-southeast of Portland, on the border between Clackamas and Hood River counties.