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Hatcher Pass Badonkadonk Hill Hike
July 7th -2014 ~ Blog # 643 (David)
On Monday we planned on hiking April Bowl Trail, which starts at the top of Hatcher Pass and heads south up Hatch Peak. Hatcher Pass Road had just opened up that week; the road was still covered with snow. April Bowl Trail had a few steep snow chutes that crossed the trail. Crossing a steep snow chute that ends in a pile of boulders did not seem like a good idea, so we climbed the mountain on the opposite side of the hill. The Southern exposure had melted all of the hillside snow. I don't know if this mountain has a name, but since the girls spent so much time on their rears on the way down, we dubbed it Badonkadonk Hill.
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