Pat was a little jealous we bagged Mt Rainier two weeks earlier, so he tried to convince us to do it again. Jack and I wanted to ski, however we wanted to try something else. So the only way Pat could top the Rainier trip is if he went and skied two Volcanoes in one weekend. So that was the plan: Mt Adams then Mt Hood, in one weekend.

We hit the road around 7pm on Friday from Jacks house. We grabbed some half decent mexican food with huge mugs of beer on the way down. We kind of underestimated the length of the drive and rolled into camp at Cold Springs around 4:30am on Saturday morning. We set up camp quickly and went to sleep. Two hours later we woke up and started getting ready for the 7000ft climb ahead of us.