"Solo hike today and to the TH @ 7:30AM, 3 cars in the lot on a Friday. Kamikaze up is as fun as everyone says, lots of gain. My calves and achilles were feeling it. On the descent (down Teneriffe trail) I found talus on only about 30% of the hike -- a majority of the trail was quite clean. No sweeping landscape photos were possible today, as the smoke finally found it's way here. " — zachmitch • Sep 9, 2022

"Solo late afternoon hike up the Kamikaze Route of Mount Tenerife. I have heard how difficult this trail is, so of course, having sumitted most if not all the peaks on the I90 corridor, and many of the HC 100, I decided to attempt this route as a trainer for a solo Enchantments through hike. I have been up Tenerife a couple of times, and outside of this route, and maybe connecting Blowdown, Crater Lake, or Dixie, the mountain no longer has much appeal. The trail up towards the falls, is the usual restored former logging road - boring. Finally, some switchbacks emerge to help traverse a talus field, all the way up to several lookouts for the falls. Sadly the falls were bone dry today, and the rest of the trail was steep, and there are no water sources remaining on this route - FYI - so be prepared. Once the steep, rooty, rocky switchbacks yielded to a rocky ridge, you emerge on a rocky point with a great view and appreciation of the ongoing uphill ridge to climb. The route has you going up a few rocky bits for a few hundred feet, and then yields to forested paths, with ever-emerging daylight as the trees on each side of the ridge tin out as you gain altitude. The trail is mos..." — markhadland • Aug 20, 2020