Mt McLoughlin Sunrise Hike

Outing is rated as More Difficult because of length and steepness of the climb, low visibility while hiking at night, and uneven trail. My plan is to sleep in my vehicle at the trailhead. Right now I am estimating starting from the trailhead at 2:30am in order to get to the summit by 6:15am.

Distance is about 5½ miles to the summit and it is nearly 4000 ft elevation gain. Nice thing is that there are cooler conditions from hiking at night, so you might not need suntan lotion, but I would suggest bug juice. There will be some moonlight, but we should see some shooting stars because it is around the time of the Perseid meteor shower.

Limiting the group size to 8 hikers.