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Cramer Lake, Long John, Tumac Mountain, Pacific Crest Trail Section I - White Pass to Snoqualmie Pass
— Sep 17, 2008
— myokes
Multi-night backpack
Features:
Wildflowers blooming | Ripe berries
Issues:
Bridge out | Bugs
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Started out around noon at Dog Lake Campground and went up the 1106 (Cramer Lake Trail). The weather was awesome,...
Started out around noon at Dog Lake Campground and went up the 1106 (Cramer Lake Trail). The weather was awesome, very sunny but not too hot. We had lots of smoke rolling up in that area and we wondered if there was a forest fire nearby; when we reached the end of the hike we asked a forest ranger and he said it was from Southern Oregon forest fires (the smoke was with us the whole trip). Anyways, we hiked from dog lake to Long John Lake on the first day. The bridge is still out on the trail but there's a large log about 100 yards up the creek that you can cross on. That section was 5.23 miles on my GPS, the map showed it was about 6.7 but by my calculations it was 5.23. We camped near Long John Lake the first night and I caught two small cutthroat trout out of the lake. Temperatures got down to around 40 degrees so it wasn't too cold. Got up early that morning and headed north on 1142 (Shellrock Lake Trail) then briefly headed west on what my "green trails map" said was trail 44. Then less than a quarter mile after getting on trail 44 we went north on the PCT (Trail 2000). Lots of wild blue huckleberries along the trail all the way along the PCT where we went, especially on the climb out of fish lake. We went north the second night on the PCT all the way till the cut off to American Lake. It was a 15.9 Mile stretch according to my GPS but my legs thought it was 25 miles! unless you're in really good shape i wouldn't recommend going all 16 miles in one day, especially with the 1500 - 2000 ft. elevation gain coming out of Fish Lake. Water was not a problem on the trip but i would recommend filling up at the stream thats about halfway up the climb out of fish lake. We didn't come accross water again on the trail till we camped near American Lake. On the third day we hiked out on the PCT up to Dewey Lake then to the bridge at Chinook pass staying on the PCT the whole way. That section of the trail was pretty easy till the climb out of Dewey lake. The third day total was roughly 7.5 miles. Mosquitos were not bad on the hike; they were around but not nearly as thick as they are in July. the total trip was just over 28 miles on my GPS and there were some spectacular views!
Day hike
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I traveled up from the Dog Lake trailhead for a nice day hike to Cramer, Dumbell, Long John, and Otter...
I traveled up from the Dog Lake trailhead for a nice day hike to Cramer, Dumbell, Long John, and Otter Lake. The plateau between Chinook and White Pass is a great area. I have been up there dozens of times over the last twenty years and my advice is that from now through September is the best time to visit. The skeeters make the area almost uninhabitable through July and early August. There are miles and miles of swamp ground that provides a fertile breeding ground for greedy blood suckers. One time I traveled to Twin Sisters Lakes in early August and my Yellow Lab looked like a black lab due to the skeeters covering her coat. No exaggeration!
Shellrock #1142, Dumbell Lake #1156,Cramer Lake #1106, Long John #1142.1
— Jul 10, 2002
— Dslayer
Day hike
Issues:
Blowdowns | Water on trail | Snow on trail | Bugs
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Like the proverbial one trick pony, I keep going to the same places again and again-there's about 12-13 lakes...
Like the proverbial one trick pony, I keep going to the same places again and again-there's about 12-13 lakes in the area N of the White Pass that I fish and I try to get to each of them at least once a year and some of them many more. The snow is melting fast, the Dumbell Trail between Cramer and Dumbell Lakes is still choked with snow and is several feet deep-a lot of snow is left from the south shore of Dumbell Lake to the top of Cramer Mtn which overlooks the lake, but the snow was melting fast yesterday and will be diminishing quickly in the hot weather. The heat was stifling, virtually no wind, and that meant the mosquitoes were able to swarm constantly about me-they're really bad right now. I caught fish at Dumbell, nice cutthroats and some smaller ones at Otter Lake. No trail maintenance has been done yet, so a number of deadfalls mar the trail-nothing too bad for hikers, but a couple on the Cramer Lake trail would be major obstacles for horses. |
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