Silver Peak loop from Windy Pass
Carlos and I parked on the side of a spur road off of road 9070. A
vehicle with high-clearance could go to the end of road, but not my
Subaru Impreza. We walked up the road to where it curls to the right
just before ending near ridge NW of Silver Peak. We went north into
Silver Basin and soon scrambled up the side of the NW ridge. Once on
the ridge we had sweeping views of the peaks to the north, starting
with Mount Si in the west, then (to name a few) Bandera Mountain,
Kaleetan Peak, Snoqualmie Mountain, Guye Peak, Mount Thompson, Red
Mountain, Chikamin Peak, the Four Brothers, and Mount Stuart in the
east. The ridge was a fun scramble with a bit of rock scrambling and
a small amount of exposure at times. Sometimes we had to drop to the
east or west side of the ridge to avoid gendarmes. A few hundred
vertical feet before the summit we dropped over to the west side of
the ridge (there were excellent views of Mount Rainier here) and
stayed on that side until we reached the summit.
On our descent we took the bootpath south to the Silver Peak/Abiel Peak saddle,
then followed the path east to the PCT.
Elevation gain:
1,760 feet
USGS quads:
Snoqualmie Pass, Lost Lake
In:
South Fork Snoqualmie Drainage
Car-to-car:
4 hours 45 minutes
-
2 hours 15 minutes
ascending
from
where we parked the car
to
Silver Peak
-
1 hour 21 minutes
descending
from
Silver Peak
to
intersection of the PCT and road 9070
-
8 minutes
descending
from
intersection of the PCT and road 9070
to
where we parked the car
-
57 minutes
driving back
from
where we parked the car
to
intersection of I-90 and I-405
-
17 minutes
driving back
from
intersection of I-90 and I-405
to
Lower Queen Anne
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