[Charlie Hickenbottom]

Graham Mountain (Green Trails Lucerne) Graham is an easy summit located very close to the Pyramid Mountain Trail in the Chelan Mountains. You begin at a very high trailhead, well above 6000', travel on a nicely maintained trail with wide vistas, and get views of Lake Chelan more than 6000 feet below. At about 10 miles roundtrip, this gets you a nice workout on the trail and an easy summit about 300 feet above the trail on class 1 slopes. Along the way or on the way back, consider adding Crow Hill for an extra summit. If you've got energy to burn and want a longer dayhike, you can continue to Pyramid Mountain and back for an 18 mile day. There are campsites in basins between each peak along this trail and the Pyramid Mountain Trail can be used for longer treks into the North Fork Entiat area and perhaps beyond. To reach the trailhead, drive the Entiat River road for perhaps 20 miles or so. Turn right onto FS Road 5900 and continue on gravel for 8 miles to Shady Pass. Road condition is fine for most cars. At the pass, take the left and lesser used road (FS 113) and travel a few more miles to road end. The short driving sidetrip to Big Hill is worth the time. These side roads would not be friendly for vehicles with low clearance. The trail begins on an old cat track used as a fire break in the 1970s. At Silver Ridge you'll transition to true trail. A short ways beyond you'll come to the saddle just south of Crow Hill. If you take the easy (Class 1) sidetrip to Crow Hill, you'll enjoy grand views of Lake Chelan below. To continue on towards Graham Mountain, you'll have to descend several hundred feet, keeping in mind that you have to regain this elevation on the return. Midway along this descent is a sidetrail on the left called the Butte Creek Trail. The trail climbs again out of a basin and contours the southwest slopes of Graham Mountain, only about 300 vertical feet below the summit. You can leave the trail and do the south ridge towards a central, but slightly lower summit. Just a bit farther north on the trail, you can ascend in a northeasterly direction towards the higher north summit. 9/1/07

[wildernessed]

Been there, it is awesome, getting out of your vehicle and starting with great views. Did you just do this trip ?, If so what was / is the snow level on the road ?, looking at driving up to 4000' and taking the Lake Creek trail into Lake Creek Basin and over to Angle Peak. O.K., I saw the date 9/1 at the bottom, disregard.