Icicle traverse

  • Date:
    2022/09/18 to 2022/09/23
    Car-to-car:
    6 days
    Round-trip distance:
    59 miles
    Elevation gain:
    21,485 feet
    Trip type:
    scramble

    • Day 1

  • Thanks to our friend Chilidog for dropping us off at the Stevens Pass PCT trailhead.
  • Bulls Tooth over Chain Lake

    • Day 2

  • A subsummit of Lemool Mountain
  • Bulls Tooth from Lemool Mountain
  • Doughgob Mountain from Lemool Mountain
  • Chain Lakes
  • Summit of Bulls Tooth
  • Chain Lakes Peak
  • Huckleberry
  • Giant gendarme
  • Chain Lakes
  • Bulls Tooth sub-summits over Doelle Lake
  • Camp between Doelle Lakes
  • Bulls Tooth sub-summits
  • Jim Hill Mountain

    • Day 3

  • Jim Hill Mountain
  • Breakfast on the summit of Doughgob Mountain
  • Big Chiwaukum from the north ridge of Frosty Mountain
  • Grindstone Mountain over Upper Florence Lake
  • Camp at Upper Florence Lake

    • Day 4

  • Upper Florence Lake
  • Cape Horn
  • Pasque flower
  • Lady's Peak
  • Opportunity Mountain
  • Lake Edna
  • Blaze on schist
  • Big Jim Mountain over Carter Lake
  • Big Jim Mountain
  • Painters Thumb
  • Lake Ida
  • Lake Ida
  • Ida
  • Summit of Big Lou
  • Camp at Lake Augusta

    • Day 5

  • Larch cone
  • Lake Augusta
  • Lake Augusta
  • Big Jim Mountain
  • Summit of Big Jim Mountain
  • Lake Augusta
  • High winds and dead trees made us decide to turn around and exit via Scatter Creek
  • Lake Augusta
  • Frigid Mountain
  • Big Jim Mountain over Carter Lake... again.
  • Camp at Carter Lake

    • Day 6

  • There was no wind in the morning, so we decided to exit via the Icicle Ridge Trail after all.
  • Lake Augusta
  • Descending into Cabin Creek Valley
  • Ascending out of Cabin Creek Valley
  • Key trail traverse
  • So happy to be on good trail!
  • Icicle Ridge summit
  • Icicle Ridge lookout site
  • It's still a long way to Leavenworth
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