Tipsoo Butte

We're @ Tipsoo Butte for the night - it's the highest point on the OR/WA portion of the PCT @ 7560' unless you hike the rim trail @ Crater Lake like we did, then there's a point there that's 50' higher.  We did about 13 miles today with the last 5 miles carrying extra water for our dry camp.  Nice views of Mt  Thielsen north to the South Sister today.
The weather has been been mostly sunny w/some clouds & a cool wind out of the east today.  The last three mornings have been quite cool - meaning I start hiking with long pants & shirt instead of shorts & T-shirt as before, but I won't complain.
Trails have been good in the park & today.  The trails in the Sky Lakes Wilderness needed lots of maintainence with many logs across the trail, portions that seemed like dry creek beds, and portions on steep rocky side slopes that were almost wide enough for both feet.  One miss step & you would have ended up many hundreds of feet down slope in a big heap!
It seems we just missed numerous fires south of the park, so we're hoping your luck will hold!