This morning we woke up, packed up camp, and started to head down Pingree Park Road to the trailhead for today's hike up to Signal Mountain. There isn't a parking lot at the trailhead, just a wide spot on the road to park at. The view from there was pretty good and the views would only get better as the day went on.
We hit the trail and immediately descended a few hundred feet to Pennock Creek, which we would follow upstream for several miles as we ascended to the ridge of Signal Mountain. There were lots of pretty little cascades on the creek.
We continued our ascent, eventually veering away from the creek.
Soon, we reached a tall rock spire.
Maybe a mile after passing the rock spire, we emerged out of the trees and made our way through the alpine tundra.
I felt pretty out of shape and so we stopped pretty frequently to rest and admire the blooming wildflowers.
We continued on
and soon enough found ourselves on the summit. The views were pretty awesome!
After taking a lunch break behind some rocks to get out of the wind, we started to make our way down.
Even though it was a descent, it seemed to be pretty slow going. We saw a beautiful butterfly on the way down.
We made our way out of the Comanche Peak Wilderness,
and soon after had the short, but steep ascent back to Pingree Park Road and the car.
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