After spending 8 hours sitting at a drizzly trail head at the base of Cascade doing trailhead stewarding on an extremely slow Memorial Day Saturday (didn't even break 50 people).  I went up the trail.  As I was expecting, the trail was wet and muddy.  We had reports of some snow earlier in the day, but it was gone by the time we got up.  About 1/3 of the way up, I stripped down to my tee shirt.  When we got above tree line, I started to get a little chilled, so at the second cairn I put my shell on since that was the most handy layer.  I could have done my base layer or fleece and been fine.  Getting my glove liners on though was near impossible with damp hands.

I was doing this hike not because I really wanted to go to a peak that had no view thanks to clouds, or because I wanted to walk through 4 miles of mud.  I wanted to map the cairns on the mountains to aide in winter navigation.  So, at each of the 3 cairns I put my phone on top and marked a point.  I now need to figure out how to put them into a GIS software and make maps of them.  There aren't that many peaks with cairns in the park, and the ones that I have left to do are doable in 2 hikes which I plan to do this summer.  I'm not horribly concerned about needing this information for my winter hiking, but it is best to be prepared.