Top fisherman phrases heard at the lake: 'You're gonna get cold in them shorts.',' You ain't got no fishin' poles?', and 'Did you find a bag of fried chicken on the trail?' This is the Boulder Lake accessed from Tenas Creek Rd near Darrington. See Mike Collins report for great directions to the trailhead and the peaks. This fisherman's trail is indeed obscure, muddy, and wind fallen. I was surprised to see seven cars at the TH. It rained off and on as we headed up valley. Some beautiful waterfalls are seen soon after entering mature forest. The path diverges often; follow whichever seems best. We left forest and entered meadows. The summer bloom is on, but not as good as it will be. For some reason we decided to approach Hurricane via the south side of Boulder Lk and the north side of Pear Lk. We climbed the last gully before the cliffs to access Pear. We came in well above the lake. This was much longer, required more elevation gain, and generally made me lose interest. We consoled ourselves with the ascent of Boulder Peak. We followed snow and boot paths through heather. The NW ridge is not reached until 150' below the summit, due to outcrops, and mean trees. Two soggy sheets of yellow paper in a non-screwing PVC tube didn't tell much of a story. Views were fog-limited to Buckindy, Hurricane, Cheval, and the lakes. Not rocky or blocky, this summit has flower fields, and acres of heather to fall asleep in. The descent was more direct, heading NW from 5600' directly to the dry outflow.

8 miles R/T, 3100' gain, 3:40 up, 2:20 down

These peaks were climbed via a circle route over about 10 miles and 5,200' of altitude gain. It was drawn up by Stefan F. who lead the climb. The start and endpoint of the hike/climb is the trailhead for Boulder Lake, located at about 3,000' elevation on the Tenas Creek Road. Take I-5 North turning east onto SR 530 through Arlington and Darrington. Continue on the route when it turns north at Darrington. About 800' past the bridge over the Sauk River turn right onto the Suiattle River Road. Go 8.1 miles on this road until turning left onto FS 2660 which is the Tenas Creek Road. After 2.1 miles take the left fork and drive on that road for another 5.1 miles leaving the car in a large parking area on the right. The trailhead bulletin board is not easily visable from the road. The parking area is just before the road crosses Tenas Creek. The Boulder Lake trail is actually an unmaintained fisherman's trail to the lake. It has water coursing down the middle, many logs to climb over, and sometimes tough to follow. It will always be on the left side of the creek though and we followed it to the outflow for the lake. Once at the lake Hurricane Peak will be revealed. The route up is almost opposite the outflow on the farside. It starts as a broad avalanche slope lying to the right of a rocky nose about 150 vertical feet above the lake. We connected with this area by hiking clockwise around the lake, first the west side and then the north. The avalanche slope narrows to a chute that ends at a col. About 200 feet beneath the col angle right and upward travelling briefly through cedars which connect with SSE slopes that lead to the summit. The high reaches are lowangled without difficulty. There are prime views of nearby Chaval and east to Buckindy. Once there we dropped 400' to the east and made a southerly directed traverse to swing clockwise around Point 6222 connecting with the gentle NE ridge of Boulder Peak (6267'). This should not be confused with yet another Boulder Peak about six miles to the north near Granite and Jordon Lakes. The Boulder we climbed has a triangle on the USGS map indicating its prior use as a summit for triangulation by a surveying party. From Boulder we continued on a ridge route which connects with Huckleberry Mountain at 5856'. The low snow pack allowed us to locate the Huckleberry Mountain trail and follow it to about 5,000' where we then regained the Huckleberry Mt ridge. We followed on the rounded ridge and were surprised to find an abandoned trail up there. It is perhaps the old route to the lookout. Our objective was to climb the western terminus of Huckleberry Mountain at about 5,300' Our descent route was to loose altitude on a north ridge until 4,400' where we then hiked NE to return to our cars. Trip started at 7:00AM and ended at 4:45PM.