Tonga Ridge / Mount Sawyer — Wednesday, Jul. 15, 2009

Central Cascades > Stevens Pass - West

What a beautiful ridge hike! We walked in to the pass (around 3 miles)and saw only small patches of snow remaining. The wildflowers are fantastic- lupine, tiger lily, phlox, indian paintbrush, thistle, wild strawberry, etc. We only met a few people and I think they all went up to Mt. Sawyer instead of heading for the pass so we felt like we had the trail to ourselves. One surprise was the beautiful condition of the gravel roads leading to the trailhead- any car could make it easily.