I hiked to the top of Long Trek Mountain and back.  I started on the Crater Lake trail, but at about 2 miles, I branched south onto the CDT. At 2.7 miles, I left the CDT to begin the easy Class 1 ascent of about 400 feet to the the top of the mountain.  Long Trek is only 12,831 ft high, but it affords great 360 views of Crater Lake below and the surrounding area.  I thought about descending and ascending the nearby Montezuma Peak (a 13 er), but clouds were moving in and I did not want to get caught in rain and lightning.  It turned out to be the right call not to bag Montezuma because the rain started on my way back to the trailhead and thunderstorms soon followed.

I hiked along from CDT, starting from near the antenna station adjacent to the Lobo Overlook, out towards Mt. Hope.  I felt good, the weather was beautiful, and the wildflowers were in full bloom so I hiked out to a big meadow/park near Spruce Lakes in the vicinity of Mt Hope.  Along the way, I stopped at beautiful Rock Lake (about 4.5 miles in) and had lunch while enjoying the scenery and tranqulity.

My wife and I hiked a portion of the Continental Divide Trail from Wolf Creek Pass out to Alberta Peak.  Our pace was slow because of my wife's pulmonary issues, so this was a physical therapy hike to hopefully help improve her lung capacity.  The first 2 miles of the trail was up all the way via a lot of switchbacks.  The trail eventually leveled off a bit for the next mile as we hiked above and behind Wolf Creek Ski Resort.  Alberta Peak is more of a small hill to ascend, not a mountain, but I climbed it nonetheless as I love to bag peaks.  Because of our slow pace, we ended up at Alberta Peak much later than I would've liked, so we had to deal with a lot of developing bad weather, including rain and lighting/thunder.  Consequently, I didn't get to spend much time on the summit as it became necessary to get back down into the treeline to safety.  Several blowdowns on the up/down portion of the trail, but trail was esy to follow.