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.
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
Goat Mountain (Lake Philippa quad) from Bare Mountain trail
Autumn on Bare Mountain trail
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