Shriner Peak — Friday, Oct. 3, 2025

Hiked the Shriner Peak Trail. The good news is it is an up-up, down-down hike unlike Palisade Lakes/Slide Mt. which is down-up, down-up. The bad news is that it goes up-up-up for 3450 feet in elevation gain. I did hikes to Gobblers, Indian Bar to the 5900 view and Palisade Lakes/Slide Mt., all over 10 miles and I still think this is the hardest hike.

The weather was perfect hiking weather, about 60 or so and the views were a bit clouded but still spectacular. Our best view of the Mountain was on the drive to Shriner Pk. on 123 in the early morning. Looked different from our hikes in the past weeks. A new coat of snow made it look spectacular. I put a before/after pic up. It is hard to see, because of the different angle, but Little Tahoma is almost completely covered now. There were great colors sporting from top to bottom

As noted by the only other person we met on the trail who also posted a report, 4 rangers at the tower closing it up. We were given a tour of the inside, both top and bottom. Nice little work room on the bottom. We talked to the rangers for about half an hour grabbed a quick bite and headed down. Besides a trail runner we met only one other hiker.

Over the last few years we have met several people overnighting at Shriner Pk. and they usually had it all to themselves. Camp site 1 has a spectacular view of the Mountain and most were treated to a grand show of stars. Usually this site is open all season, since it is not on a trail going somewhere.

Next time, I will have Georg park next to the trail head. The hike to the pullout down the road is really long after this hike.

Happy hiking!