Glacier Peak circumnavigation
Date: 2017/08/22 to 2017/08/27
Car-to-car time: 6 days
Round-trip distance: approx. 105 miles
Elevation gain: approx. 25,000 feet
Trip type: backpack
USGS quads: Suiattle Pass, Clark Mountain
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Day 1
- The road was washed out a couple miles before the White River Trailhead.
- A few cedars joined into one giant!
- Brush on Indian Creek Trail stained our clothing green.
- Blue Peak and Johnson Mountain from the Indian Pass campsite
- Indian Pass campsite
Day 2
- Blue Peak and Johnson Mountain from the Indian Pass campsite
- PCT love
- Indian Head Peak
- White Mountain
- Foam Creek Trail
- Glacier Peak over the Foam Creek pass
- Glacier Peak from the Foam Creek pass
- PCT
- White Chuck River
- Kennedy Creek
- Hellebore
- Pumice Creek
- Sunset over Pumice Creek valley
- Camp near Pumice Creek
Day 3
- Hellebore
- Fire Creek Pass
- Mica Lake
- Deer Fern and Creeping Raspberry
- Devils Club above the PCT
- Grassy Point over the PCT
- Glacier Peak
- On the ridge to Grassy Point
- Grassy Point
- Glacier Peak
- Gamma Peak and Glacier Peak
- Gamma Peak and Glacier Peak
- Vista Ridge
- Camp on Vista Ridge
Day 4
- Old growth in the Suiattle Valley
- Bridge over the Suiattle River. This always makes me happy
- Chipmunk
- Maidenhair Fern
- Douglas Squirrel
- Miners Ridge lookout
- Glacier Peak from the Miners Ridge lookout
- The trail to the toilet
- Camp at the Image Lake campground
Day 5
- Glacier Peak and meadows of Miners Ridge
- A sub-summit of Fortress Mountain
- Pasque Flower
- Glacier Peak
- Glacier Peak
- Helmet Butte from the Liberty Cap Trail
- Glacier Peak from near the summit of Liberty Cap
- Mount Cleator
- Fortress Mountain in the background
- High Pass from the slopes of Rally Cap
- On the summit of Rally Cap
- Mount Cleator
- Rally Cap
- Unnamed lake below High Pass
- Napeequa Peak
- The upper Napeequa Valley
- Clark Mountain
- Napeequa River
- Marmot
- Clark Mountain
- Chiwawa Ridge over the Napeequa River
- Chiwawa Ridge
- The key path that makes the Napeequa descent pleasant
- Napeequa River
- Camp near the Napeequa River
Day 6
- Napeequa River ford
- Point 8373 over the Boulder Creek Trail
- White River Trail
- At the White River Trailhead
- One of the washouts on the closed section of the road
