Preston: El Capitan

Klamath National Forest DAY 1 | DAY 2 | DAY 3 | DAY 4 Green lines for day 3. Click for interactive map Well, I hadn't been too crazy about trying to go up Preston via the route that some claim has several solid class 3 climbs while others seem to think is just a "high class 2" all the way when I had rested muscles. I wasn't any more interested when my legs still felt done over from fighting an overgrown trail for much longer than it should have required. We settled on trying for Copper Mountain with a plan to walk the ridge from Cyclone Gap. We packed up and headed down with a rather more than brief stop to saw off all the limbs of a tree that had fallen along the trail. Daniil carried in the saw and cut the limbs and all who hike the trail this season should be thanking him, because it wasn't very passable before the saw came out. A look back to the cirque of Raspberry Lake with Preston Peak rising up behind the false peak that dominat...