Kachess Ridge Trail
This weekend we attempted this hike, which turned out to be a bit ambitious for us - we didn’t make it all the way to the fire lookout at Thorp Mtn - but we did summit the first part at 5700-ish ft, which gave us absolutely terrific views of Mt Rainier from one side of the mountain, and equally terrific views out towards Thorp Mtn and well beyond to the north. We didn’t bump into anyone all day: the trail looked like it has been used maybe a couple times all season, and it was a bit difficult to follow up the trail higher (the Green Trails map has at least two errors that we detected). But man is it gorgeous up there - this is my favorite hike of the season so far. Naturally I forgot my good camera so all I have to offer is cruddy cameraphone images, two of which I broadcast directly from the mountaintop (yep, you can now surf the web at 5700 ft in the Cascades, at least this section).
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