This route is not too far out and not difficult, but I'd like to submit it for a possible FKT. It is 5 miles into the top of Grizzly Peak in the Jefferson Wilderness Area, off of Highway 22, in Oregon (near Marion Fork and Idanha and Detroit Lake). The route is rocky for the first 2.5 miles and then it is up from Pamelia Lake to the top of the peak. It is not a difficult trail, but the uphill is steady. The view at the top of Mt. Jefferson is amazing. This is a personal request, mainly, as it is the place my father worked as a fire watch during the summers of 1947 and 1948 when he was 17 and 18 years old. He worked for the US Forest service and lived at Pamelia Lake, hiking daily to the top of Grizzly Peak and the fire lookout that used to be there. When it became a wilderness area, all of those structures were torn down.
Thank you for considering this for a route.
There is a Strava segment for the out and back
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