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Cowlitz Rocks from Paradise

Date: 2005/01/29
Trip type: scramble
Special gear: ice axe, snowshoes
Elevation gain: approx. 2,080 feet (approx 633 meters)
Round-trip distance: approx. 7.5 miles
Car-to-car time: 5 hours 11 minutes
USGS Quad: Mount Rainier East
In Area: Mount Rainier National Park
Trip Organizer: The Mountaineers Scrambling Committee

Trip Report

We had intermittent low visibility all day, without the GPS navigation might have been a challenge, the nearby landmarks weren't always obvious. The route we took was mostly a snowshoe with one short section of easy rock scrambling around 7,040' on the ridge SW of Cowlitz Rocks. The summit itself was a walk-up with cornices and a steep drop off on the east side.

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Maps

Travel Times

Car-to-car time: 5 hours 11 minutes
Ascending time: 2 hours 54 minutes
Descending time: 1 hour 59 minutes
  • 2 hours 54 minutes ascending from Paradise (5,395') to summit of Cowlitz Rocks (7,475')
  • 56 minutes descending from summit of Cowlitz Rocks (7,475') to where we stopped for lunch at creek crossing
  • 1 hour 3 minutes descending from where we stopped for lunch at creek crossing (6,275') to Paradise

Visited

Image of On the way back to Paradise from Cowlitz Rocks
On the way back to Paradise from Cowlitz Rocks

Image of Ridge south of Cowlitz Rocks
Ridge south of Cowlitz Rocks

Route Map

Image of Cowlitz Rocks from Paradise map
Cowlitz Rocks from Paradise map
Copyright © 2005 Gabriel Deal.