This weekend was scheduled for Spider Meadows, which apparently was still covered in Snow.  We moved the hike to Packwood Lake, but lightning storms made this trip less than ideal.  We changed it to Pete Lake with less than a week prior to the hike.  

Our High Adventure Team did a pre-hike and pre-campout to get in some miles.

Since Pete Lake is in the Alpine Lakes Wilderness area, we split the Troop into 2 12-person groups and kept them separated by 1+ miles.  One crew would camp at Pete Lake while the other would camp at Lemah Meadows. 

Satellite messages

Urban pre-hike was 7 miles

The day started out really wet and progressively got wetter

Hiking out from Cooper Lake

One of many creak crossings

Lunch Break

Mr. W thought these Vanilla Leaf plants looked happy

Pete Lake!

After detouring around a trail that was blocked by a raging river and climbing up a hill while being pummeled with pouring rain mixed with heavy snow, we finally it the PCT!

We survived the night!  The rain stopped right around time to get up. 

Scouts opted to pile into a few tents to keep warm

Lemah Meadows was a beautiful marsh

Packed up and ready to head home

Here the the trail we were supposed to cross the night before. 
The water current was significantly less than last night!

Stopping at Pete Lake on the way back

Finishing off with a debrief