I hiked to the top of Long Trek Mountain and back. I started on the Crater Lake trail, but at about 2 miles, I branched south onto the CDT. At 2.7 miles, I left the CDT to begin the easy Class 1 ascent of about 400 feet to the the top of the mountain. Long Trek is only 12,831 ft high, but it affords great 360 views of Crater Lake below and the surrounding area. I thought about descending and ascending the nearby Montezuma Peak (a 13 er), but clouds were moving in and I did not want to get caught in rain and lightning. It turned out to be the right call not to bag Montezuma because the rain started on my way back to the trailhead and thunderstorms soon followed.
