Bare Mountain via trail 1037

Until the trail crossed Bear Creek the second time the trail was mostly made up of rocks that made for bad footing, after the crossing the trail was great. At 3,340 feet the trail forks, I headed left up the switchbacks. After this point the trail mostly goes through open territory with increasingly good views, Mount Rainier and many of the Snoqualmie Pass peaks slowly started emerging from behind the nearby ridges. The top of Bare mountain bears some resemblance to a small gravel parking lot, it must have been leveled off for the lookout (very little remains of the lookout). Among others the view from the top includes Baker, Glacier, Rainier, and the Paradise Lakes.

  • Date:
    2004/10/01
    Trip type:
    hike
    USGS quads:
    Grotto, Mount Phelps
    In:
    Alpine Lakes Wilderness, North Fork Snoqualmie Drainage
    Car-to-car:
    4 hours 42 minutes
    • 45 minutes driving from intersection of I-90 & I-405 to where North Fork Road Southeast turns into gravel (after the fork)
    • 1 hour driving from where North Fork Road Southeast turns into gravel (after the fork) to trailhead
    • 55 minutes ascending from trailhead to trail fork
    • 1 hour 16 minutes ascending from trail fork to Bare Mountain
    • 1 hour 25 minutes descending from Bare Mountain to trailhead
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  • Goat Mountain (Lake Philippa quad) from Bare Mountain trail
    Goat Mountain (Lake Philippa quad) from Bare Mountain trail
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    Autumn on Bare Mountain trail

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