[bobbi]

silver lake, ONF

[olderthanIusedtobe]

[olderthanIusedtobe]

[olderthanIusedtobe]

Beargrass and avalanche lilies are going off along Kautz Creek and Indian Henry's Hunting Ground. My really old Spring/Manning 50 Hikes in MRNP book calls it 2300 ft. of elevation gain. All day long I was wondering how I could possibly be getting my butt kicked so much by only 2 K of climbing. Well WTA calls it 3800 and NPS 3500. So maybe nobody really knows how much up, but I can guarantee it's more than 2000. And it was a very warm day and I got started too late. But anyway. Been meaning to get up there for a while, finally did. Meadows and flowers were nice. Rainier was being coy and stayed partially hidden. Almost everybody up there but me saw a bear where you traverse under Mt. Ararat. I missed it coming and going. I've been getting shut out all year on critter sightings. I saw a tree squirrel and several frogs. Haven't even seen 1 marmot yet this year. Don't know what's going on, apparently I'm a critter repellent currently.

[olderthanIusedtobe]

Glacier Lake waterfall is a bit whispy but has some flow going, nice.

[Ski]

SRSLY? somebody just left their tent up on a mountain like that? was there a trail of breadcrumbs leading back to the trailhead too?

[Ski]

well, I guess it's a free tent if somebody wants to go up there and haul it out. maybe you should post it in the "Trading Post" forum! or put it in the "Free" listings on Craigslist!

[EJ]

Maybe someone left the tent while they were climbing Glacier Peak? And collapsed it so it wouldn't blow away if the wind kicked up?

[Desertsp]

Just got back from White Pass near Glacier Peak. I think I actually met the guy who weighted down his tent with rocks, while he was packing up late Wednesday afternoon to hike back to the trailhead that evening. He said it was a windy site... Some photos of the trip. Also got some panoramas (hopefully) but have yet to stitch them together. https://www.flickr.com/gp/151204684@N08/k34mAT (I think I left a black neoprene steripen case at the outlet of the boomerang shaped lake in the glacier basin. On a rock. If anyone finds it, please PM me!!!)

[Waterman]

Cape Scott Vancouver Island. 7 hour drive from Sidney to Port Hardy. 42 miles of logging road to trailhead. 10 miles to 1st beach. Howling wolves woke me up in middle of night. On the trail next day saw 1 pup 75' away. Gone in a flash. Young couple saw 4 pups the day before. Hike west to Guise bay past very popular and crowded Nels bight. Beach covered with wolf tracks. Guise Bay, very beautiful. Hang for 2 nights then cross over to Experiment Bight. Couple dayhiking to lighthouse see a pack of 7 wolves on shore. We travel east down shoreline. Tide pools, pocket beaches and a big black bear, back to Nels Bight. Stay one night. Hard to leave. Wolf walks by 40 ' away in broad daylight. Not bothered by people. This place is very cool. Well worth the effort. Too lazy to post photos. Wife injuries achilles tendon. Ends up on crutches. She can't wait to do it again.

[zephyr]

[Waterman]

The logging road was 2 1/2 lanes wide well graded. Car or truck ahead of you is what slowed you down. Logging trucks have the right of way, yield or get crushed. Scarlet Ibes in Holberg last stop or 1st stop depending on direction, cold beverages and chips. Nice sundeck. Go, you won't be sorry.

[olderthanIusedtobe]

Quick TR for Cady Ridge/Little Wenatchee River loop so I don't hijack another thread. I'd done it once before a little later in the year, great fall colors throughout. Right now it's in a transition period. Still a few flowers. Starting to get a bit of fall color. Blueberries galore! A few of several other kinds of berries. Cady Ridge and PCT section are in excellent condition. Then the Little Wentachee....I've come down it twice previously. I don't love that trail, it's a bit brushy but it's a good way to close some loops. Well apparently the two previous times it was nowhere near peak jungle density. Yesterday it was absolutely obnoxious. Probably the most overgrown actual maintained trail I can remember being on. Roughly 50% of the distance between Meander Meadow and the trail head traversed meadowy areas with brush totally encroaching the trail, often couldn't see the trail or my feet. Maybe I was just tired, but I really did not enjoy the last several hours of my trip yesterday. Everything up til then was great though.

[Lilredexpress]

Saw a black bear 10 minutes below the summit of Mt Dickerman today. Got kinda spooky for me. I was last one coming down this afternoon, and stopped for a break near all the berry patch / open area. Ol Blacky was chomping berries next to the bloody trail and even decided to stand up for me on his hind legs. He promptly started to run parallel to the trail in my direction when I started to talk to him. I think it spooked him and he ran before he knew where I was. My shaking hands and legs didn't stop for about 30 minutes. My dog never knew what was going on. Second hike back in Washington after being gone two yrs in NC. What a return. No smoke or haze around summit or surrounding Mtns. But hazy past the Mtn Loop mtn ranges. Hot in exposed sun area's up top. Saw nice couple about 3:30 headed up, gave them a heads up to be alert near the meadows below the summit before you get to the open area.

[reststep]

Beautiful Any sign of a trail?