Seymour peak,Tahtlum Pk(pt 6567),Yakima peak

Seymour peak, Tahtlum Pk(pt 6567) and Yakima peak 6-10-06

This was a very fun scramble that gave one of my buddies three new peaks and allowed me to go up tahtlum pk, a mountain I have looked at and wanted to ascend for years.

We parked at the tipso lake trailhead and headed southeast on snow and then at about 5800' went east on the south side of naches pk (following approximately where the summer trail goes). Somewhere south of pt 6046 we looked for and found a way south, in between the cliffs, down towards dewey lakes. We then headed south along the ridge close to the county line and continued south to seymour peak's basin where we headed uphill to the saddle between seymour and dewey pk(6710). From the saddle we followed the ridge up with a fun section of class 2 rock scrambling and quickly reached seymour's summit. We headed back down the ridge, but instead of going back to the seymour/dewey saddle, went to the closest notch a few hundred feet east of the summit and descended a somewhat steep snow gully and went down a little northeast to rejoin our tracks around west of dewey lakes and then angled northeast up towards the 5700' saddle west of tahtlum and followed the ridge on snow, easy rock and dirt to tahtlum's summit. We then descended back to the saddle and continued west, on the ridgetop, on snow and easy rock/dirt to find our tracks on the south side of naches pk. Once back at tipso lake we proceeded counter-clockwise around yakima peak until we reached a snow ramp on it's northwest side (I ascended yakima pk years ago when there was no snow via this same route) and climbed this somewhat steep snow to it's summit. Please watch out for a snow bridge over a moat near the top starting to melt out. Although, I read in 75 scrambles of a route up a gully on it's east side I am unsure where this gully is. Can anyone tell me about this east gully route? We then descending this same route to tipso lake and were back to the car 8 hours after we began - happy, well exercised and content.

11 or 12 miles - 4700'gain