Views from the Three Sisters Wilderness

After a short hike one morning on the Proxy Falls trail, we took an afternoon drive on the southern portion of the Aufderheide National Forest Scenic Byway further into the Three Sisters Wilderness.  We stopped at a trailhead called French Pete for a longer hike into the wilderness.  We managed to hike in about 2 ½ miles that afternoon before the heat made us want to turn around and head back.  It was our hottest day out so far this summer and we felt it! 

But French Pete was everything you would want in a wilderness trail – remote, wild, winding up a steep canyon beside a fast running creek and no one else on the trail.  Except for the heat and humidity (and David said we could have had that back in Texas) we loved our hike in the Three Sisters Wilderness.



Lava field on Proxy Falls Trail in Three Sisters Wilderness



Along the French Pete Trail



French Pete Creek