Trip type: scramble
Elevation gain: approx. 4,060 feet (approx 1,237 meters)
Car-to-car time: 6 hours 12 minutes
USGS Quad: Bandera
In Areas: South Fork Snoqualmie Drainage, Middle Fork Snoqualmie Drainage
Trip Organizer: The Mountaineers Scrambling Committee
Trip Report
We parked at the trailhead for Dirty Harry's Peak, on the north side of Exit 38, and headed up the paved road that leads to a fire training area. After less than a mile we headed right up Dirty Harry's road-trail. Around 3,500' the trail fork at the bottom of a talus field, the route to Dirty Harry's Peak goes left and our route was straight ahead. The trail countoured below the talus field as it headed ENE toward a small tarn at 4,353', Greentrails maps show this trail to the tarn.
From the tarn we followed a flagged path ESE up the basin that is west of Web Mountain. Because of snow on the north side of the ridge, we stayed in the basin instead of taking the ridge and ascended on a talus field to the summit.
This was a surprisingly brush-free and aesthetic route. For an after-hours trip it was fairly ambitious, we got back to the cars at 11:30 PM.
References
- Matt Robertson's website: Web Mountain, Mount Defiance, West Granite Mountain traverse
- Winter guide book: One Day Winter Climbs in Washington (out of print)
Maps
- Greentrails map: Bandera (#206)
Travel Times
Car-to-car time: 6 hours 12 minutes- 2 hours 56 minutes ascending from Dirty Harry's trailhead (1,450') to summit of Web Mountain
- 2 hours 50 minutes descending from summit of Web Mountain (5,465') to Dirty Harry's trailhead
- 49 minutes driving back from Dirty Harry's trailhead to Lower Queen Anne
Visited
SW ridge of Web Mountain from summit
Summit of Web Mountain