Cascade Volcanoes • Entered by Laurie Kerr on August 26, 2023
Solitude Monitoring
July 11, 2023
Participants and Hours
| Pre Planning hours | 12 |
| Post Admin hours | |
| Activity Hours | 4 |
| Participants | 2 |
| Total Hours | 20 |
Key Issue: Public Lands Health & Protection
Activity Type: Stewardship (monitoring, sampling, planting, etc.)
Key Partners: National Wilderness Stewardship Alliance/Mt Adams Ranger Dist
Landscape/area: Indian Heaven Wilderness (20784 acres)
Measurable Outcomes
Outcome 1: Trail/land monitored (4.2 miles)
Outcome 2: Trail/land monitored (0 people)
Short Description of Activity
Linda Folkestad and Ihiked to Indian Racetrack trail in Indian Heaven Wilderness to monitor solitude.
Reflection/Evaluation
Very interesting history at Indian racetrack by Indigenous tribes. The Indigenous Tribes actually held horse races on this site and you can see the dirt radcetrack around the meadow. I felt that we were intruding on their ancestral lands in hiking through there. Lots of huckleberry bushes but no huckleberries yet. Lots of glacier/avalanche lillies and mostly, just mosquitoes. No people or evidence of them. No smoke from the distant fire was noted. Clear blue sky and lots of solitude!
The traffic going over the I205 bridge was so bad that Laurie did not get home till 7:30pm. Next time, Linda will meet me on the Washington side and she will drive the opposite direction of traffic. That will save us much time. We had a great time and we stopped for pizza on the way home.