Ascended on the first break from a long drought. Mixed wind and rain throughout the day. The trail is largely wide, unpaved roads which are pretty easy to hike on. The segment leading up from the loop trail to the peak was narrow and more challenging, but sheltered from the wind. We took an alternative route back down which had a really dynamic weather condition.

Make sure to first visit the visitor center (on the next road south) to get a parking permit.

GPX file is wrong; recording cut out as we were descending back onto the loop trail. From there, we re-did the steep section heading clockwise toward the bench and completed the loop before returning to the base.