Icicle Creek, Chain and Doelle Lakes, Bulls Tooth Loop & Lorraine Ridge — Sunday, Aug. 31, 2025

This was a backpack trip to camp and do a couple days hikes I wanted to cross off my 100 Hikes in the Alpine Lakes Wilderness list. Our group of five included my infamous friend kidz won't hike whose research and tracks motivated me to add Bulls Tooth to my adventure.

We started by driving FR 6960 to meet the PCT on the backside of Stevens Pass Thursday afternoon. From there we hiked to the junction above Lake Josephine and took the turn onto the Icicle Creek Trail. Once past Lake Josephine the trail was overgrown in areas but easily passable. Just past the Icicle Creek crossing we set up camp for the duration of our trip.

On Friday we hiked up to Chain Lakes. Three of our party hiked the switchbacks towards the pass above Upper Doelle Lake and side hilled to a talus gully to climb to Bulls Tooth. Another friend and I followed the trail around the third Chain Lake to approach the talus. That trail deteriorated into the heather and blueberries but wasn't too bad to follow. The climb is talus and heather all the way, the best approach was just to the right of the tooth. Epic views though a little hazy. Last entry in the log was 2023. Afterwards we two side hilled over to the saddle above Doelle and waited for our other friends to return from their trip to Doughgob.

Saturday, we traveled back down the Icicle Creek Trail to find the Lake Leland Trail to get to Lorraine Point. This portion of the trail was a little more overgrown but still easy to follow. At the junction there's a huge campsite. The creek has a log you can cross or rocks as well. The creek was low so there were no problems. At the Lake Leland fork we stayed right on the unmarked trail to Lake Lorraine. There are a few larger trees to get over and the trail is rough in spots but otherwise in great shape.  Thanks to those who put in the work the last few years to keep this trail open. Most of it was in the shade and that was nice until just below the Point and old fire lookout site. There's no sign or obvious trail to the lookout site; you just have to bushwhack through blueberries to get there.  The view was outstanding here too. On our return we took the time to soak our feet and take a bird bath.

This morning, we got up early and hiked out. We saw very few hikers which was nice. Though some in the party did additional peaks, these hikes totaled 28 miles with roughly 8000' of gain.