Preacher Mountain via Rainy Lake
The Rainy Lake trail has been cleared out recently, all the blowdowns
from last winter have been removed and the trail is brushed out.
From Rainy Lake I took the ridge east of Rainy Lake, when it got
cliffy I stayed to the right of the ridge top (the lake side) below
the cliffs. The brush started out heavy, but after the first few
hundred vertical feet it improved considerably. When the ridge
petered out around 4,880 feet I followed a bearing to the little lake
southeast of Rainy Lake. The little lake was deep enough for a swim
and had some nice spots for camping nearby, although in the wet season
they may be very soggy. From the little lake I headed southwest up
the side of the amphitheater then followed a bearing to the summit,
skirting the bottom of the boulder field near the summit. The summit
had a survey marker and a cairn, but I did not find a register. The
view from the summit was 360 degrees and included a surprising number
of lakes.
USGS quads:
Bandera, Lake Philippa
In:
Middle Fork Snoqualmie Drainage
Car-to-car:
9 hours 10 minutes
-
2 hours 25 minutes
ascending
from
trailhead
to
Rainy Lake
-
3 hours 15 minutes
ascending
from
Rainy Lake
to
Preacher Mountain
-
1 hour 30 minutes
descending
from
Preacher Mountain
to
Rainy Lake
-
2 hours
descending
from
Rainy Lake
to
trailhead
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