A glorious hike from the Sunrise area! WTA stats are bang on, so here was our timing on a lovely August morning:
- 8:45am - departed the campground trailhead
- 10:55am - arrived at Glacier Basin Camp (this included 15 quick stops to document the meadows for the UW MeadoWatch program, so without those stop it would probably have been 10:30am)
- 11:20am - our turnaround point hiking past the maintained trail up "The Wedge"
On the way down, we did the detour to the Emmons Moraine Trail:
- 2hrs 15mins to come down from our end point in Glacier Basin back to the campground, including the side trail to Emmons Moraine.
- Only took us about 30 mins from the end of the Emmons Moraine Trail maintained trail back to the campground/trailhead (10 mins from the end of the maintained trail to the main trail, 20 mins on the main trail back to the campground).
I will definitely recommend this hike as a good early / late season one on Rainier!
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