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The North Fork Skykomish Trailhead is great because it’s actually the trailhead for three separate trails, all of which can be put together to make loops of different lengths. Last week I did a three day loop that took me on the West Cady Ridge trail before intersecting the PCT Read more…
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The North Fork Skykomish Trailhead is actually the trailhead for three trails, West Cady Ridge heads south, the North Fork Skykomish trail heads east and the Quartz Creek trail goes north. It’s a great trailhead because you can connect all of these trails with other trails and create loops of Read more…
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Earlier this summer I hiked up the East Fork of the Foss River into the Necklace Valley and then a couple of weeks ago did the same thing up the West Fork. What I’ve really been wanting to do though is the loop that connects them together. In order to Read more…
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I did a quick overnight hike up the West Fork Foss River and Lakes trail this past week. The trail follows the west fork of the Foss River until it gets to Trout Lake and then takes you to a string of lakes. After Trout Lake you’ll pass a short Read more…
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The title of this post should be, “Rock Lake, I hiked there so you don’t have too”. Rock Lake is one of the lakes in the north Alpine Lakes Wilderness and is one of a couple of lakes named “Rock Lake” in the region. WTA.org’s website shows a Rock Lake Read more…
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A few weeks ago I hiked to Jade Lake with the intent to camp at the lake. You’ll recall that plan did not work out due to snow still lingering around the lake. At the time I came back down and camped by the river. That snow is long gone Read more…
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A few weeks ago I posted about the hike up Meadow Creek Trail. On that hike I only made it three or four miles due to running into snow. That really was the point of that hike, to see where the snow level was. Here’s the thing. I figured by Read more…
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On June 22nd and 23rd I did a quick backpacking trip up Deception Creek. It wasn’t terribly far, only 11 miles total, but it’s a nice hike along a beautiful little stream with plenty of interesting waterfalls and other water features and a nice campsite right before you have to Read more…
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Johnson Ridge is exactly the hike it sounds like it is, a hike up Johnson Ridge. There are no switchbacks or anything else to soften the blow. If the ridge goes up you hike up, if the ridge dips down then you hike down. If we’re being honest it’s almost Read more…
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Blanca Lake is a great hike to a great destination with an unfortunate couple of streams crossing the forest service road leading to the trailhead that keeps washing the road out. You reach the trailhead by taking Highway 2 to Beckler River Road, just past Skykomish, and then stay on Read more…