Big Craggy Peak, Copper Glance Lake — Saturday, May. 31, 2025

Ngie and I got up to the summit of Big Craggy Peak, after car camping at the Honeymoon Campground the night before. This small campground is about 3.5 miles from the Copper Glance Trailhead.

The creek crossing which is about a half mile from the trailhead was a bit tricky, as the creek was running pretty good, and some of the small logs needed to cross it were partially submerged. Having hiking poles helped out immensely. Would not want to slip here.

Up around 5700ft you come up to a vast meadow with a fantastic view of Sherman Peak. It is still too early for the flower show in the meadow, bt the view from here waw spectacular. Here we left the trail and headed straight up the ridge to Big Craggy Peak. The beginning of this ascent starts of in the meadow, and then then goes up through an old burn. Lots of new growth happening here as there are a few seedlings, and lots of grass, and new wildflowers starting to bloom. As we got higher it began to get more rocky, and around 7800ft the grade steepened, and we began to encounter loose scree and rocks. This was the most difficult part of the climb, as all the rocks were loose, and were moving with almost every step. Ngie went way right to get on more solid rock, and I went left to find the same.  At around 8000ft I found some solid rock to scramble up, which was a lot nicer. There was a bit of loose scree near the summit ridge, but it was much easier that down below.

Once on the ridge went over to the first highpoint which is the summit per the map. Not knowing if this was the true highpoint we went to the one on the end of the ridge. They are nearly identical heights. Hard to tell which one is higher. Spectacular views from the summit! Wow! We spent a good amount of time up here trying to figure out wat all the peaks were. So many North Cascades and Pasayten peaks visible!!

On the way down some clouds rolled in, and the wind picked up. Once we were back down on the trail we heard some trees fall, and sure enough one had fell across the trail. We removed some of the limbs, and hiked back out.

On our drive out we encountered a couple of trees down across the road. Fortunately I had my saw with me, and we were able to remove these trees, and continue down the road. Down further just past the intersection with NF 5220 (Cub Pass road) a huge tree fell across the road. There was no way my saw could cut through this. Ngie knew that NF road 5220 would get us out of there, so we turned around, and headed up that way. Another stuck car followed us. We encountered a couple of other fallen trees that we small enough, that we were able to clear the road, and continue. This road is narrow in spots, but any car can make it, as the sedan that was following us made it out too. Hopefully they will get that big tree cleared. It's a good reminder to carry a saw!

We started our hike at 7:05 am and finished at 2:30 pm 7.4 miles with 4748 gain

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