Date: 2006/06/03 to 2006/06/04
Trip type: hike
Elevation gain: approx. 1,900 feet
Car-to-car time: 16 hours 18 minutes
USGS quad: Teanaway Butte
In area: Teanaway
I parked at the Way Creek trailhead on a spur road off of Jungle Creek
Road and headed up Way Creek trail (#1235). The "trail" is more like
a road at first, sometimes a bootpath breaks off to the left then
rejoins. At 4,615' the road turns into a pleasant trail. After two miles I turned left onto Koppen Mountain trail (#1225). Then
left again onto a way trail that heads up the east side of Malcolm Mountain, there was a pile of chopped wood under a tarp here, I wonder
what that is for? The summit of Malcolm mountain is bare of any vegetation except for
smatterings of wild flowers. It has a a metal plaque that reads "Wes
Stanley 1928 - 1996 Malcolm Mt's Midnight Tenor", I wonder what the
story here is? The views from the top are mostly local, Elbow Peak,
Humerus Hill, Jolly Mountain, Skookum Mountain, Koppen Mountain, Mount Stuart, Iron Peak, Earl Peak, etc. I bivvied on the summit. Around 1 AM it started raining and by the
time I woke up around 8 in the morning I was laying in a pool of
water.
References
Maps - Greentrails map: Mount Stuart (#209)
Travel Times Car-to-car time: 16 hours 18 minutes
- 2 hours 6 minutes ascending from Way Creek trailhead (#1235) to summit of Malcolm Mountain
- 2 hours 15 minutes descending from summit of Malcolm Mountain to Way Creek trailhead (#1235)
- 16 minutes driving back from Way Creek trailhead (#1235) to 29 Pines Campground
- 1 hour 59 minutes driving back from 29 Pines Campground to Lower Queen Anne
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