Noah wanted to do a backpacking trip with some friends for his birthday. Unfortunately, one of them broke his foot, so it was just 4 of us this year. A few years ago we did the same on his 13th birthday.
This trip we went to another one of the cascade volcanoes. Mt. Thielsen in southern Oregon.
Variable terrain from burned out forest to mountain streams coming right out of the snow. Only downside is that the mosquitos were horrible.