Hall Creek, Change Peak & Mount Washington — Sunday, Nov. 16, 2014

Snoqualmie Region > North Bend Area

Overall 14.5mi loop, 1400m ascent. Ravens Roost, Hall Point, Change Peak, Hall Peak, Mt Washington. I saw absolutely everything today: Mt Si, Teneriffe, Green, Bessemer. Mailbox, Dirty Harrys, West Defiance, Putrid Pete's, Defiance, Bandera, and maybe a glimpse of Granite. Mt Baker? Yep. McClellan, everything in the direction of the Zig Zag trail and those unnamed peaks. Chester Morse Lake, Rainier (though it's south-east twin was not visible from this location). McDonald, Rattlesnake. North Bend, Issaquah, Bellevue, Seattle (in the smog). Even saw the big white building on the summit of the unnamed peak above Thompson Lake at the end of Granite Creek Road. We're calling this "Hall Peak" because it's the accessible prominence on the ridge up from Hall Point. There is a slightly higher summit as the south side of this dromedary pair, but it was almost entirely covered with trees and there was no clear path except bushwhacking. There wasn't even a goat path, and even Change Peak has one of those.