Past the Bumper on Mt Adams

17 miles of hiking • 3750' elevation gain •

Fantastic day!!!! We headed up Stagman ridge with the idea of tagging Lookingglass Lake and then doing a bit of, off trail above treeline near the Bumper. The burn is coming along nicely with some fun views through the burned trees. We decided to cut off the Stagman ridge trail on a use path directly over to Lookingglass Lake instead of going up and then descending to the lake on the main trail. Beautiful route through many flower filled creeklets. The main branch of Cascade Creek was flowing pretty good and the rock hop was too long for my legs. We found an easy spot to ford where it was just calf high. The user path ended at the creek, but once over, the main trail down to the lake, parallels the creek about 50 yards max from the creek. We took first lunch at Lookingglass Lake which was wonderful and had a waterfall!! Then we headed up the main trail up to the Round the Mountain trail, proceeded north along it and decided to cut off trail in some meadows just south of Horse Meadows. We headed eastish above tree line, staying east of The Bumper and strolled north. We found a lovely high spot. I spotted a nice cirque tarn nearby and Karl spotted the Hump. He headed off to tag that and I went to the tarn and took way too many pictures. By then it was dinner time so I ate some food and we headed down to pick up the PCT which was about 3/4 of a mile below us. We didn't have to meander much to find a good way down. Hit the Pct and bombed back to Stagman Ridge trail and back to the car by sunset. Wonderful day.