Monday, July 1, 2019

Eastern Pasayten Wilderness loop

A good early-summer marker is the annual Pasayten Wilderness trip (2019 is year six!).

Ben hadn't yet seen the eastern Pasayten, so we did parts of the classic Chewuch-Boundary Trail loop, but included nine summits along the way and quite a bit of cross-country travel.

65 miles, 19k' gain

Chewuch River beaver

Rubber Boa

Not the usual Wilderness sign

Windy Creek trail to Windy Peak

Pano from Windy Peak

Horseshoe Mountain summit, with Arnold and Armstrong next; Ben's photo

Border monuments 103 and 104 are on Armstrong

Mother Ptarmigan distracting us from the chicks

Armstrong Creek valley, Canada

Descending Armstrong, Haig in center up next

Loudon Lake and the western edge of Horseshoe Basin

Weather rolling in

Bauerman Ridge hail storm; Ben's photo

Bauerman Ridge hail storm; Ben's photo

Apex Mountain from Tungsten Mine

Pano from Wolframite Mountain summit

Ben on Wolframite's summit

Remmel Mountain from the summit of Apex Mountain

Western Pasayten and the North Cascades from Apex

Looking at our cross country route south of Apex, down to the Chewuch

Four Point Creek basin on the Remmel/Coleman Ridge trail

The signs survive

Nice bedrock area on Andrews Creek


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