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Overview
Secluded Wind Lake lies behind Tom Dick and Harry Mountain and can be accessed by crossing the summit ridge from Mirror Lake or by heading up from Ski Bowl West. In fact, the latter has its own network of trails that you can explore to visit other natural attractions in the area, such as Tom Peak and Multorpor Fen. While you’ll see fewer hikers here than on the very popular Mirror Lake Trail, in the summer Ski Bowl can be abuzz with visitors to its Adventure Park. You will also be criss-crossing mountain biking trails and sometimes stepping aside to let bikers pass. Nonetheless, Wind Lake is a quiet destination tucked away from all the activity, and the view from Tom Peak is spectacular on any clear day. Take the steps down between the lodge and the ticket booth, and continue to the left of the Lower Sky Chair to enter the Adventure Park. Pass the bottom of the sled run to reach Lake Road. Once on Lake Road, you’ll soon come to the four–way junction with Bridge and Cross-Country Roads. Go right on Bridge Road for about 50 yards, and head up the AWD track that rises steeply through bracken and thimbleberry to the left of the Lower Sky Chair. A small creek runs to the right in a corridor of alder and mountain hemlock. You’ll fetch up at a port-a-potty and the top of the sled run. Go left to reach Low Road, and then make a right. You’ll pass under the sky chair and cross a ski run below the rustic 1930s CCC warming hut. Leave the road to hike up to the hut (avoid the winding mountain bike trail) and look back to get one of many spectacular views to Mount Hood. To keep hiking, go left on the High Road (behind the warming hut): those wishing not to ascend under their own power can keep straight to take the Upper Sky Chair to the ridge above. Make sure you avoid the Cannonball Trail, which is for mountain bikers only. Head up High Road, and keep left at the spur leading to the top of the Lower Sky Chair. Continue across another ski run to the Skyline Road-High Road-Horse Trail Junction, where you will see the top
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