Cascade and Porter

We did this on April 1st, but when we were publishing this, it got lost and we didn't save it. We tried to remember it.

For our first 46er, we decided to do Cascade. It was the beginning of spring, so there was snow and ice on the ground which made my shoes slippery, even though it was somewhat warm outside. This made the whole hike a little bit harder. In the beginning of the hike, we could hear the streams under the ice. The hike was pretty easy for a 46er mountain. We decided to eat lunch at a spot about 7/8 of the way up to the top. It had a great view. At the end it was completely bald and me and my crazy little brother Oscar rock climbed very fast. At the summit we touched the summit marker, looked at the view for 5 minutes and went back down.
When we reached the cutoff to Porter, we decided to do it since we had lots of energy left. So we went off. We were all together, until me and my mom started to go ahead. All the sudden Oscar and my dad were way behind us, we stopped and called their name; no reply. We decided they probably had to stop to tie Oscar's shoe or something like that, so we kept going. The sign said it was only .8 miles to Porter, but we were pretty sure we should have seen it by now. We realized we should go back when there were signs to go to some place called "the garden". So we went back, very confused, to find Oscar and dad. We were calling for them for at least 20 minutes until we got a reply. We finally found them , and went back to our car. We got there just before sundown.

When we got home, we researched and found that Porter is the only 46er without a summit marker.

Clarke