[Tom]

You can't help it, after all, you're blonde.

[Get Out and Go]

I'll throw my 2 cents in for Poe Mountain. Done it both ways, from the bottom, 3,000 ft. in 3 miles or the ridge approach from the east, which is a much more interesting trail with views. For a real challenging long day hike, go up from the bottom at the end of the Little Wenatchee Road, upon reaching the ridge follow the old tread out on Poet Ridge all the way to just above Meander Meadow, find the best way to drop down and return to your vehicle on the Little Wenatchee Trail. There are a few tricky spots where tread is lost and especially beyond the stagnant tarn where you need to flip over from the Little Wenatchee side to the Mt Whitter side, lest you run into some cliff bands. Take water and choose good weather when you can see virtually your whole route once on top or it's hardly worth it.

[MtnGoat]

White Pass Mt David Buck Creek Pass or Chiwawa Basin or Spider Meadows (counts as one because it's a run on sentence fragment) Ditto on the Poet - Meander high route, we did it from the other direction (N -S) which was nice because you just descend to your car at the end. Yes, bring a lot of water because that pond mentioned is the only water we saw as well.

[TranquilDude]

Are any of these hikes good for some backpacking in the next couple of weeks? I could use some suggestions on places to go. Preferably without snow. Thanks.

[gj]

Tranq, it's the other direction from Glacier Peak, but Thurs-Sun I backpacked from Ozette to Rialto Beach on Olympic National Park's wilderness coast, and it was awesome. Sunny the whole time, but cold at night.

[Dayhike Mike]

[Mount Logan]

My only forays into the Glacier Peak Wilderness have been multiple trips to the Jordan Lakes and one trip to "Retard" Lake. The Jordan Lakes were better fishing (especially upper Jordan), but the terrain and scenery going into "Retard" were splendid!

[strider]

Not an "intro" hike perhaps, due to the kick-your-ass first day, but .... Look at Lime Ridge on the topos. Lime Ridge runs NW down off of Glacier Peak. It is the West side wall of the upper Suiattle / Milk Creek valley. A mile up the Suiattle trail, after you cross the river, strike out West to the edge of the valley floor and work a bit, you will find the fisherman's trail up to Box Mt. Lakes. The trial is UP, 3400+ up in just over a mile, no switches. Once you're up there, it's x/c on way trails going South towards the mountain, thru meadows, past a string of amazing lakes, with very cool ridgepoints (like Lime Mt., 6900 ft or so) to scramble. An amazing place.

[jenjen]

[TranquilDude]

My buddy won't take the ferry, the bum. Peninsula is too far. We've been doing some hiking and really want to avoid the snow when we do a backpack, if we can...