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Location : Just North of Blewett Pass Access : SR 97 > Forest Road 7240 to TH at the end. Maps: GTM - Liberty Stats : 7.2 mi, 2000', 5.25 hr. r/t

Lillian Ridge - Peak and Highpoints

Kyled agreed to join me on this daystrike to one of the few close places I have not been . We alloted enough time for winter travel and were armed with COLD weather gear and snowshoes . We had to get above the fog dome to see if the skies were still blue. We were on the trail at 0810 under blue skies (above around 3000'), mid-teen temps, gaining the needed elevation before the sun broke over the ridge. There was 2-4" of snow on the trail and we made several miles or so to a forest road, at around 5500' it looked like you could still drive FR 5700 from Blewet, we crossed through some forest to another road and took the packed down road to a little NW of Mt. Lillian and gained the higher ridge off trail with easy cross country travelling...

Diamondhead from across Tronsen Meadows.

This looks like the right way.

We made our way to the East side of the ridge with great views in that direction...

Fog covered foothills Northeast of Lillian Ridge.

Upper Enchantments

Enchantment Peaks, Prussik Pass, and Prussik Peak.

Horse Lake Mountain aka Twin Peaks sticks out of the fog with Burch Mtn. in the background.

Phelps Creek Drainage with Entiat Ridge right and Chiwawa Ridge left ?

(L to R) Duncan Hill, Pinnacle Peak, Choral Peak, Gopher Peak, Saska Peak, Emerald Peak, Cardinal Peak.

South side of Mission Peak.

We made our way to the West side of the ridge to a nice open highpoint...

Mt. Stuart

Mt. Lillians East face with Mission Peak in the background.

Saw Mt. Lillians summit area and found the highest spot, which was in the trees...

Trail in the summit area.

Mt. Lillian summit area.

We followed the ridge to the NW and came to another highpoint with amphitheater types views of peaks to the North...

WOW !

SWEET !

Iron Mtn., Three Brothers Mtn., Mt. Stuart, and Colchuck Peak.

Lillian Ridge rock formations with Stuart Range in the background.

Mt. Rainier

Rock formation on Lillian Ridge with Diamondhead Mtn. in the background.

Glacier Peak

Glacier Peak and company.

Peaks of the North Entiat / Glacier Peak Wilderness.

Rock formation along ridge.

Kyled with Tronsen Meadows and Stuart Range in the background.

6000' plus highpoint with neat rock formations NW of Lillian Peak.

Looking up North Shaser Creek Valley at Iron Mountain Pass (center), Miller Peak (left), Navaho Peak (Center), Iron Mountain, Three Bro. West summit area, and the top of Mt. Stuart.

We ate some lunch and started snapping the pics . Great vantage point . From there we dropped down several hundred feet, then followed our initial route back. I was fairly surprised to see only about 1' of snow at 6100-6200'.

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[Get Out and Go]

Wow...You guys had incredible visibility today. No haze at all on your zoom shot of Ranier. Your "SWEET" picture is a keeper. Great day to pull above the cloud/fog deck. I hit blue skies at about Johnny Creek up the Icicle....Descended back into the funk to come home.

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[kyle d]

Nice report, especially enjoyed all the panormas. Looking at a wildlife guidebook makes me lean even more toward those prints we saw being mountain lion Looks like those side roads from Blewett may not be as accessible next weekend with the snow we are getting tonight in Wenatchee. Here are some of my pictures from the trip (the last couple are from an evening drive up Mission Ridge to get above the inversion a little more

Inversion over the Wenatchee valley from Mt. Lillian

Inversion over the Wenatchee valley from Mt. Lillian

Twin Peaks and inversion over the Wenatchee Valley

Inversion over the Wenatchee valley from Mt. Lillian

Grouse? takeoff leaves wingprints in the snow

Grouse? takeoff leaves wingprints in the snow

Stuart Range from Mt Lillian

Snag with Stuart Range beyound from Lilian

Snag with Stuart Range beyound from Lilian

Incoming fog at mission ridge

Inversion

[puzzlr]

I like the way you framed this, and it really is a cool looking rock.

[ActionBetty]

Is that same area we did last year when we thought we were on Diamondhead?

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[ActionBetty]

way cool.. I will have to explore those roads around that area more. Nice pics my friend

[Philthy Phil]

Philthy Phil wrote: Man...you are one mountain goat! I wish I had your youth and energy. I had planned to do what you're doing following retirement but a medical misfortune pretty much ruined that. If you haven't already, I'd suggest your putting Lake Elsey on next season's calendar. I was there in '96 (one of the tougher ones) and got some great views of Glacier Peak, the White Mtns, and looking DOWN at A-6 Intruders flying up the Napequa Valley. Your reports and pics are great!

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