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Mount Washington — Sunday, Oct. 23, 2011

Snoqualmie Region > North Bend Area

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Type of Hike

Day hike

Trails Hiked

  • Fall foliage
  • Hiked with a dog
The second half of the hike is the best. Don't stop at the 2 milepoint view. Keep going as the trail is better than the skid road. You'll gain another 1600' elevation fairly easy. Views from the top include N.Bend, I-90, Chester Morse Reservoir, and some of the Alpine Lakes area. There are some interesting cliffs/caves in the first mile that reminded me of hiking in West Virgina (minus the coal seams) I just wonder why the trail description only goes for two miles ???
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Mount Washington --- Great Wall Trail

The new Day Hiking series of 6 books has been incorporated into the wta.org website and I'm assuming that's what you were using. The older 55 Hikes in the Snoqualmie region (you can probably find it on-line?), also by the Mountaineers, has 2 separate hikes for Mt Washington. The 2-mile hike you referred to is known as the "Owl Hikers Spot. There is also a separate hike for the old logging road to the summit. But the new trail is shorter than the logging road route. I'm not sure why the Day Hiking book doesn't have a listing for the new trail. I haven't found it in any guidebooks so far. The new trail is excellent; I hiked it a few years back. I ran into a couple at the time who loved the (much) longer logging road route and were trying to talk me into going back down that way (I did not).

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Tomas on Oct 24, 2011 11:57 AM