Hiked up the Pinnacle Saddle trail, then continued to the summit of Plummer's Peak, and then further to Denman Peak.
The trail is dry and dusty all the way to the top of all the saddles and summits. No new obstacles or blowdowns.
Plummer's Peak: Weirdly some kind of small insect was swarming over the summit of Plummer's Peak when we were there. They did not bite, but were nevertheless annoying. Views from the summit were not fantastic. It was very hazy, especially to the south, and we could not make out even the outline of Mt. Adams.
Denman Peak: To get to Denman Peak Summit we followed the boot trail leading down, out of the lower meadow at the foot of Plummer's Peak to the saddle between Plummer's and Denman. Traversed past and around the Denman summit rise to reach the western side. We worked our way to the summit from there following a number of different and fairly obvious trails. Some of it is across slippery scree, and near the summit you put away poles and use your hands in one or two places.
(In the picture I've posted of the saddle trail to Denman Peak, you can make out what looks like a trail up to the summit. I do not recommend this trail. It looks great from a distance, but is risky up close. Keep going around that first shoulder and then work your way back up to the summit from there.)
The summit is a wide, pleasant meadow with a nice view of Mt. Rainier.
Lots of nice, ripe Huckleberrys almost all of the way up. The trail between the foot of Plummer's Peak and Denman Peak had the most. I briefly considered going down to my car for a bucket and coming back up to actually do some picking.
Seemed like a lot of new, spontaneous trails out to random places in the woods along the main trail.
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