Mt. Hood Cooper Spur Hike 10/21/2007

I slated a newbie backpacking trip for the weekend but no newbies signed up (suckers) and the weather was looking really bad for saturday. So the plan was hatched to do a day hike. I wanted to climb cooper spur but reality hit me. I am way out of shape for that so a day hike up the spur was called for. We needed to get into the snow one way or another. We drove up the road to cloud cap as far as we could (not nearly as far as I thought we could). There was a good amount of snow on up there. The recent storms did thier job! In the snow the whole time. We took the road for a ways then jumped off to hike ghost ridge (we think is was that) or at least a lateral morain for the Elliot glaier. The day was perfect, good temps and sunny. I was in shorts all day long working on my tan :) We ended up stopping at the same elevation as the stone shelter on cooper but a ways west of it. It is starting to look tasty up there for some turns and to climb cooper spur.