Bare Mountain

The trail was quite wet. After crossing several small steams and gaining several hundred feet, the trail crossed raging Bear Creek. The crossing would have been dangerous (bridge out?) so we bushwhacked about 1/3 mile on NE side of creek until the trail crossed back across the Bear Creek. From here we followed the trail thru a meadow with many skunk cabbage, marsh marigold and bluebell. The trail branches off to the left from an old road. We reached snow at 4200 feet, and used ice axes to ascend to a saddle east of the summit, and followed the ridge to the summit. Rain a good share of the day.