Mount Price via Hester Lake

  • Date:
    2013/10/24
    Car-to-car:
    10 hours 33 minutes
    Trip type:
    scramble
    USGS quad:
    Snoqualmie Lake
  • Our route down. My GPS failed on the way up, but our ascent route wasn't very good anyway.
    Our route down. My GPS failed on the way up, but our ascent route wasn't very good anyway.
  • Dingford Creek Trailhead
    Dingford Creek Trailhead
  • Bunch Berry
    Bunch Berry
  • Skunk Cabbage graveyard
    Skunk Cabbage graveyard
  • The boggy Hester Lake Trail.
    The boggy Hester Lake Trail.
  • Inside a hollowed hemlock.
    Inside a hollowed hemlock.
  • We went the other way.
    We went the other way.
  • Mount Price over Hester Lake.
    Mount Price over Hester Lake.
  • Overcoat Peak and Chimney Rock over Hester Lake.
    Overcoat Peak and Chimney Rock over Hester Lake.
  • Tightrope log crossing
    Tightrope log crossing
  • Little Hester Lake
    Little Hester Lake
  • Ascending the boulder field directly south of Little Hester Lake.
    Ascending the boulder field directly south of Little Hester Lake.
  • Crazy hemlock!
    Crazy hemlock!
  • We gained Price's east ridge to the east of the 5,440' sub-summit. The ridge top was difficult and we ended up traversing the steep north side of the ridge until we got to the 5,400' col immediately east of the summit.
    We gained Price's east ridge to the east of the 5,440' sub-summit. The ridge top was difficult and we ended up traversing the steep north side of the ridge until we got to the 5,400' col immediately east of the summit.
  • The final ridge ascent to Price's summit.
    The final ridge ascent to Price's summit.
  • Sorcery Mountain.
    Sorcery Mountain.
  • Big Snow Mountain and Hester Lake from the summit of Mount Price.
    Big Snow Mountain and Hester Lake from the summit of Mount Price.
  • The summit of Mount Price.
    The summit of Mount Price.
  • Mount Garfield
    Mount Garfield
  • Big Snow Mountain and Hester Lake.
    Big Snow Mountain and Hester Lake.
  • Little Hester Lake
    Little Hester Lake
  • Little Hester Lake
    Little Hester Lake
  • Overcoat Peak and Chimney Rock over Hester Lake.
    Overcoat Peak and Chimney Rock over Hester Lake.
  • Bunch Berry.
    Bunch Berry.
  • Hiking into the night.
    Hiking into the night.
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