Spider Meadows #1511
Jul 14, 2005
- Type of Outing
- Day hike
- Read More in our Hiking Guide
- Hike: Spider Meadow and Phelps Basin
- Region: Central Cascades -- Stevens Pass - East
- Agency: Okanogan-Wenatchee National Forest, Wenatchee River Ranger District, Leavenworth
- Trails: Spider Meadows (#1511)
- Avg Rating: 4.13
Hiking up to Spider Gap is like walking through a Sierra Club calendar - spectacular vistas, masses of wildflowers, views forever, gurgling creeks and relatively few people and dogs.
The trail to the meadows is level and often wide enough for a whole pack to walk side by side. Lots of shade and peek a boo views. Plenty of monkey face flowers, tiger lilies, columbine.
The meadow is humongous and filled with lupine, paint brush, anemomes, aster, cow parsnip, pearly everlasting, penstemon and more.
We camped at the fair end of the meadow and hiked up to Spider Gap in the morning. The first half of the trail is steep and rocky. The second half is on the spider glacier. There are a few tiny crevasses but nothing to worry about.
From the Gap you can see down to Lyman Lake, around to Lyman Glacier and to the surrounding peaks. There are lots of spider crawling around the rocks at the Gap.
Back down to the meadow and hit the trail home by 2:30. Back to the car around 5 pm.
FYI - The gas station next to the 59er Diner is not operational. It's 38 miles to the next gas station in Skykomish. Whoops!
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