Mount Rose — Friday, Jun. 10, 2011

Olympic Peninsula > Hood Canal

This is a fairly steep hike through the woods from just above lake Cushman to the top of a short mountain. The trailhead starts at about 800 feet and in 2 miles you find yourself at 3050 ft at horse camp (just a small area that is flatter than everything else) there you choose to go to the summit either right on the ridge route or left which is a 1/2 mile shorter but is almost just straight up the steep hillside. i chose left and ran into impassable snow 1/2 a mile later at about 3700 feet. i would advise going on the ridge route for at least a couple more weeks as i hear that that is now passable . My lungs hated me on the way up and my knees hated me on the way down, but given the chance i would do it again, and hopefully summit this time..