Trip type: hike
Time spent ascending: 2 hours 11 minutes
Time spent descending: 1 hour 25 minutes
USGS Quads: Grotto, Mount Phelps
In Areas: Alpine Lakes Wilderness, North Fork Snoqualmie Drainage
Aesthetic rating: 3/5
Trip Report
Until the trail crossed Bear Creek the second time the trail was mostly made up of rocks that made for bad footing, after the crossing the trail was great. At 3,340 feet the trail forks, I headed left up the switchbacks. After this point the trail mostly goes through open territory with increasingly good views, Mount Rainier and many of the Snoqualmie Pass peaks slowly started emerging from behind the nearby ridges. The top of Bare mountain bears some resemblance to a small gravel parking lot, it must have been leveled off for the lookout (very little remains of the lookout). Among others the view from the top includes Baker, Glacier, Rainier, and the Paradise Lakes.Comments
The only person I saw on the trail was a bow hunter looking for bears.References
- Book: 100 Hikes in Washington's Alpine Lakes
- Washington Trails Association: Trip reports
Maps
- Greentrails map: Mount Si
- Greentrails map: Skykomish
- USGS quad: Grotto
Travel Times
Driving time: 1 hour 45 minutesAscending time (not including breaks): 2 hours 11 minutes
Descending time (not including breaks): 1 hour 25 minutes
Altitudes below are readings from my altimeter so they are only approximate.
- 45 minutes driving from intersection of I-90 & I-405 to where North Fork Snoqualmie Road Southeast turns into gravel (after the fork)
- 1 hour driving from where North Fork Snoqualmie Road Southeast turns into gravel (after the fork) to trailhead
- 2007/12/28: 55 minutes ascending from trailhead to trail fork
- 1 hour 16 minutes ascending from trail fork to Bare Mountain
- 1 hour 25 minutes descending from Bare Mountain to trailhead
Visited
Goat Mountain from Bare Mountain trail
Autumn on Bare Mountain trail