Frog Mountain
Andrea and I parked at Jack Pass and headed NE up a logging road shown
on USGS but not on Greentrails. (Both maps were useful because
Greentrails has some roads that USGS doesn't show.) We followed some
post-holing boot prints to a bunch of shot-up CDs, beer cans, and clay
pigeons. We continued up the road up a few switchbacks to where the
road ends at 3,520'. From there we traversed east to the ridge and
followed the ridge to the summit. This wasn't the most direct route,
but it worked well on skis.
This was an OK ski trip. I ended up snowshoeing the final couple
hundred feet to the summit, and on the way down we snowshoed the
section between the ridge and the end of the logging road. The
logging road would probably not be steep enough to ski down in powder,
but it was fine with spring snow.
Elevation gain:
2,320 feet
Trip type:
backcountry ski
In:
North Fork Skykomish Drainage
Car-to-car:
7 hours 8 minutes
-
1 hour 49 minutes
driving there
from
Lower Queen Anne
to
Jack Pass
-
4 hours 38 minutes
ascending
from
Jack Pass
to
summit of Frog Mountain
-
2 hours 30 minutes
descending
from
summit of Frog Mountain
to
Jack Pass
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