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JVesquire
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Joined: 28 Jun 2006
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Location: Pasco, WA
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| The Salmo Priest loop is nice. not sure it is worth the 8 hour drive from Seattle though. |
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Chief Joseph
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Joined: 10 Nov 2007
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Location: What Verlot Forgot.
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| RichP wrote: |
The Salmo-Priest has a 20+ mile ridge traverse called The Shedroof Divide. Probably one of the least used wilderness areas in the state due to its remoteness from Pugetopolis. The one semi-popular hike is the Salmo-Priest Loop.
https://www.wta.org/go-hiking/hikes/shedroof-divide |
I should explore that one, since currently I am right next door at Priest Lake.
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JVesquire
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Location: Pasco, WA
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iron
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| stephen mather and glacier peak |
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Chief Joseph
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Location: What Verlot Forgot.
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| stephen mather and glacier peak |
Looks like where you are headed in Canada is about a 3-4 hour drive to the Salmo-Priest, or you can head down through Bonners Ferry and hike in the Selkirks, ski at Sweitzer, etc.
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iron
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no need to hike in the US anymore
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Chief Joseph
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Location: What Verlot Forgot.
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Still a nice location and in reach of many areas, gives you a lot of options.
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olderthanIusedtobe
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Joined: 05 Sep 2011
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Location: Shoreline
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| no need to hike in the US anymore |
You're going to be within fairly easy range of a bunch of National and Provincial Parks. I didn't come close to seeing everything worth seeing up there, but really enjoyed Valhalla, Bugaboo and Yoho. |
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iron
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| olderthanIusedtobe wrote: |
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| no need to hike in the US anymore |
You're going to be within fairly easy range of a bunch of National and Provincial Parks. I didn't come close to seeing everything worth seeing up there, but really enjoyed Valhalla, Bugaboo and Yoho. |
yep, and a lot of hidden/lesser known provincial parks.
we'll still come back to the north cascades, but morning mountain bike dumpster dives with stefan at 2am on a june morning before work are probably less likely.  |
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Randito
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Joined: 27 Jul 2008
Posts: 7815 | TRs
Location: Bellevue at the moment.
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| One aspect of the Pasayten I enjoy is the that it seems to be out of the flight path for SEA and YVR flights and the wilderness is big enmiough that you can get a few days in from the trailhead -- so you really get to experience only the sounds of nature and observe the night sky with minimal glow from Puget Sound City washing out the milkyway. |
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Cyclopath
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Joined: 20 Mar 2012
Posts: 4866 | TRs
Location: Seattle
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| It seems like most of the Pasayten has burned in the last few decades. After doing so much hiking on the west side in thick claustrophobic woods, open country is a relief. The burns are beautiful, seeing life come back after a tragedy is incredible. |
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Kim Brown
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Joined: 13 Jul 2009
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| It seems like most of the Pasayten has burned in the last few decades. After doing so much hiking on the west side in thick claustrophobic woods, open country is a relief. The burns are beautiful, seeing life come back after a tragedy is incredible. |
This is why the old Signpost and Pack & Paddle magazines are so enjoyable. Ann Marshall and her husband, Lee, explored many abandoned trails in the Pasayten in the 70's and even more in the 1980's. Abandoned even then. Those trails now...? - probably impossible to even locate. The Marshalls were hearty explorers; many of their trips in the Pasayten were in sleet, snow, miserable conditions on abandoned trails. Great reads!
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GaliWalker
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Joined: 10 Dec 2007
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Location: Pittsburgh
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| olderthanIusedtobe wrote: |
| Can't narrow it down to 1, have to pick 2. Alpine Lakes and Glacier Peak. With one you have polished granite and gorgeous lakes everywhere, the other is the king of meadowy ridge walking. |
Well, I will narrow it down to the Alpine Lakes Wilderness...you can't beat that white granite for me! Closely followed by GPW.
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Pyrites
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Location: South Sound
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| I didn’t think we’d get this far along without someone saying Goat Rocks. |
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Chief Joseph
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Location: What Verlot Forgot.
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| Cyclopath wrote: |
| It seems like most of the Pasayten has burned in the last few decades. After doing so much hiking on the west side in thick claustrophobic woods, open country is a relief. The burns are beautiful, seeing life come back after a tragedy is incredible. |
+1. I was surprised at how beautiful it was in was over around Black Lake NE of Winthrop which was my first experience backpacking in a burn area. Then last summer we hiked through a very large burn in the Bob. That was brutal though as we had to negotiate through miles of blowdowns. The good thing is we didn't see another human for 2 days.
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