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Frog Mountain — Saturday, Jun. 17, 2023

Central Cascades > Stevens Pass - West
Moody, cloudy day.

Finally hit this trail, after waiting for the snow to melt off.  

Zero hikers all day on a Saturday.  Huge, nice parking lot.  Road is in good shape all the way.  One drainage bar might make a sedan scrape but if you are worried about that you can park at the huge clearing at Jack Pass and walk a quarter mile up to the Frog Mt. parking lot.

Well graded, consistent trail all the way.  Machine-built up to the Wilderness boundary.  Hand-built thereafter but still plenty wide and very well done.  Everything is waking up and super green.  Really interesting mixed forest of hemlock, subalpine fir, and even some pines!

The radio repeater has been removed; I'm pretty sure we found the spot it used to sit very close to the summit.

I hope more people discover this hike and the WTA updates the description.  It's not closed; fully open.  We also discovered a backcountry toilet being installed about 50 yards up the trail.  It looked complete and very nicely built but had a ribbon across the little access path to it.  So maybe not fully done.

Great trail.
Solomon's Seal was blooming all over the place.
Massive parking lot, just my car.
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ejain on Frog Mountain

I believe your "Solomon's Seal" are bunchberries? https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/1096279-Cornus-unalaschkensis

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ejain on Jun 18, 2023 06:42 PM

Greg Nieminen on Frog Mountain

Hey, I think you're correct! Thanks for the info. I've been misidentifying that one for years apparently.

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Greg Nieminen on Jun 19, 2023 07:39 AM