People Of Washington!!! I Need A Good Hiking Spot!!!

Blood_Grooves

Blood_Grooves

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Yes I need to find a hiking spot or a place to find a spot. I want it to be as untampered with (not paved...) as possible. around seattle or in that area would be nice. :)

dont really care how big it is as long as its bigger than 2 miles.

I have been to old robe trail, VERY cool. I recomend that one.
 
How far are willing to go? There are tons of hiking spots out of Leavenworth, just over Stevens pass on highway 2.
 
ya levenworth would be cool. i am going there this summer.
but i was really looking for some where with in 20-25 miles of seattle.

ill take some hiking spots near levenworth though :)
 
There are too many for me to name. I live on the Kitsap Peninsula and I don't have to go more than a half hour almost any direction. I will suggest going to the local library and looking at the guides. That's how we usually pick.
My wife (who is a great source of hiking info) is asleep and I can't find our guides right now, but right off the top of my head the areas to look up would be Dosewalips, Lena Lake, Sol Duc and of course Mount Rainier.
 
The closest place to Seattle that I go is to Tiger Mountain. Take I90 east past Issaquah, and just up that hill where it goes to 70mph, at about exit 20 (High Point I think) you go right and then immediately right again, then follow a dirt road filled with deep potholes for about a half mile to a parking lot. There are several trails there, the main one being about 3 miles each way, with vertical gain of 1500 maybe. From the top you can see the sound, and with binoculars can make out the port and the red cranes down there.

For overnights, I head out on Hwy 410 to Chinook Pass, and camp off the road, or go into Rainier NP.
 
Munky said:
How far are willing to go? There are tons of hiking spots out of Leavenworth, just over Stevens pass on highway 2.
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Munky beat me to it. The Wenatchee River is a incredible spot to go hiking. Just outside of Leavenworth (Seattle/west side) are three different trails I can think of that are great. You can go in town (Leavenworth) at the visitors center and they have a pretty nice trail map for the area that would help you out.

One is right along the river that goes WAY past the small dam (heading west). Great hike.
 
Barclay and Eagle Lakes make for a reasonable day hike with incredible views of Mt. Baring (Baring Mountain ?). They are only a few miles beyond Monroe on Highway 2.
 
crm3137 said:
Barclay and Eagle Lakes make for a reasonable day hike with incredible views of Mt. Baring (Baring Mountain ?). They are only a few miles beyond Monroe on Highway 2.
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Man i googled barclay lake and that place looks really awsome!!! Just curious can you camp and fish up there? and what do you catch?

Mt. Rainier... i also googled and there ALOT of hiking spots there, any specific ones that are better than the rest?

I am going to levenworth two times this summer. the first one, i am going to find trails worth going on, and the second one we will go on them.
 
Windy Peak in the Pasayten. Yeah, not close to Seattle but I hear it's a very nice hike. That is it will be if they've rehabilitated the trail after the fire two summers ago. It's just above Long Swamp campground out of Loomis, WA.

This is from the Slate Peak/Hart's Pass observation point which is out from Mazama, east of Winthrop I believe.

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A few links for you:

Mountaineers books: Buy some for the areas you might hike. There are many. Link to an Amazon search (though you can find them in most local bookstores):
http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_ss_b?url=search-alias%3Dstripbooks&field-keywords=Mountaineers+Books+Washington+hikes&x=0&y=0


NWHikers.net: Great local messageboard. Many people to answer questions and a lot of information to learn just lurking.
http://www.nwhikers.net/

Washington Trails Association: Trip reports to see trail conditions before you go.
http://www.wta.org/
 
Blood_Grooves said:
ya levenworth would be cool. i am going there this summer.
but i was really looking for some where with in 20-25 miles of seattle.

ill take some hiking spots near levenworth though :)
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Tiger Mountain, on 18 out of Auburn, has a lot of great trails.

Dash Point State Park in Federal Way has some great hikes, and they're not too long -- you can go out for an hour or so and have a great time.

Mount Si has some excellent places to hike -- in fact, that whole North Bend area is worth checking out.

There are a lot of very cool places in the Puget Sound to go hike/climb/bike. If you're just getting started in the area, you're in for a treat!
 
Head out east on I-90 past North Bend. There are Forest Service roads east of exit 38. Tinkham, Denny Creek etc. These will also take you up logging roads and you can get out and start exploring. Snow is gone in the lower elevations. If you go far enough into the mountains off Denny Creek, you can dig for some decent quartz crystals.

Also check out the Middle Fork Road in North Bend. Car prowls are notorious out here so an trail head might be a good place to park your car. don't leave anything visible. I got broke into at Tiger Mountain off of High Point.


The Middle and South Fork of the Snoqualmie are also popular for fly fishers although the Middle Fork is running dangerously high.
 
Carbon Glacier on Mt. Rainier -- awesome hike (approx 7 miles round trip if I remember correctly). Not very many people, good trails, few bugs, you get to see a glacier REALLY close and maybe even touch it, etc. My son and I loved it!

- Mark (former Washingtonian)
 
I went out this weekend to a place called Rattlesnake Ledge. It is on I-90 at exit 32, just past North Bend. You go right off the exit for about 3 miles to the end of the road. There is a lake there, and trails that run North and South. I did the the basic easy trail - 2 miles, 1200 feet gain, ending up on this ledge offering a great view of the lake and North Bend. There are also some longer trails listed there, extending to 4, 6, and 10 miles 1-way.

Overall, a very easy trail (3 hrs total), but nice scenery and relatively close.
 
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