Back in early June we took a midnight hike after work. Rising straight up out of the Nenana River Canyon Sugarloaf Peak is one of our favorite hikes. The trail itself gains 3,000 ft. in about 3 miles and normally takes us about 3 hours to scramble up. The plan was to be on the summit for the sunrise, which at the time was around 4am. We began the hike about 1am and reached the top around 3am.....only two hours to the top! We were moving! We couldn't hang out for an hour because the wind was whipping and the temperature was close to freezing. As you can see there was still a good bit of snow on the peaks which was one of the main motivations for going in early June. One very nice surprise that night was the full moon. It was rising as we began our hike and setting as we finished it. We were joined by our friend Kevin and a friend of his for the hike.
Just after the sun came up around 4am on the way down.
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