Trip type: hike
Elevation gain: approx. 3,990 feet (approx 1,216 meters)
Car-to-car time: 16 hours 36 minutes
In Areas: Alpine Lakes Wilderness, Cle Elum River Area
Trip Report
I parked at the Davis Peak trailhead on road 134, which is a rough road and is very rugged near the end, and hiked up the Davis Peak trail. The trail steadily gains elevation, rarely getting steep or level, it's a nice trail for gaining elevation quickly.
The Davis Peak lookout is east of the summit on the end of a short ridge. Long ago the trees around the lookout were chopped down and they have not grown back, giving the lookout decent views. Only the four-foot rock walls are left of the lookout.
I continued past the lookout on the bootpath that heads west toward the summit. The bootpath ended at a subsummit of Davis Peak, I didn't explore what looked like a challenging scramble to the true summit. My "summit" had good 360 degree views of the Teanaway, Mount Stuart, Jolly Mountain, Goat Mountain, and the Snoqualmie Pass peaks. Except for Goat Mountain everything was pretty far in the distance.
I bivvyed in the lookout, which provided good protection from the wind. In the morning I was surprised by a little snow flurry while I ate breakfast, my first snow of the summer! It was my day for firsts, on my way down about a half mile of the trailhead I came upon a bear ripping up a tree stump, my first bear of the year.
Travel Times
Car-to-car time: 16 hours 36 minutesDriving there time: 2 hours 2 minutes
Ascending time: 2 hours 35 minutes
Descending time: 2 hours 20 minutes
Driving back time: 2 hours 1 minute
- 1 hour 38 minutes driving there from Lower Queen Anne to Last Resort Restaurant
- 24 minutes driving there from Last Resort Restaurant to Davis Peak trailhead
- 2 hours 18 minutes ascending from Davis Peak trailhead (2,895') to Davis Peak lookout (6,720')
- 17 minutes ascending from Davis Peak lookout (6,720') to Davis Peak subsummit
- 14 minutes descending from Davis Peak subsummit (6,830') to Davis Peak lookout
- 2 hours 6 minutes descending from Davis Peak lookout (6,795') to Davis Peak trailhead
- 2 hours 1 minute driving back from Davis Peak trailhead to Lower Queen Anne
Goat Mountain from Davis Peak
Mount Stuart and Hawkins Mountain from Davis Peak
Lake Terence and Waptus Lake from Davis Peak
Jolly Mountain from Davis Peak
Evening light looking east from Davis Peak
Looking east from the Davis Peak lookout