Roman went hiking February 19, 2012 5.5 miles 2,000 feet gained

Ar-rock

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(changed the name to make it non-searchable via search engine. Of course those of you guys who know this place will recognize it :)

It's an interesting place to explore, the trails have almost no blowdown after the 1st mile and generally better than I expected. Trails range from excellent down below to hard-to-see higher on the mountain, but abundant flagging makes navigation possible. Done some scrambling, saw many views, had lots of height exposure. I'll be back to explore the west half of the complex, and find that loop (today I was just to summit and east viewpoint).

The only bummer was that my dog picked about 15 ticks at those meadows, I'll buy some medicine if I take her there again.

How many kinds of lichens here? Narrow ridge to East Viewpoint Can see Wahkeena Falls on the other side of the river Snowy hills to NE View to Hamilton Of course, on the way back found a safe trail to the west (left) side of the rocks The poem dedicated to this mountain was tied to a tree at the top. East viewpoint from west viewpoint

Trail Talk

2 people have hearted this trip.

Chris · February 20, 2012

I'm stumped.

Roman · February 20, 2012

I know where you might went wrong last time (if you headed toward the summit). In the lower of 2 meadows, DN's map shows 3-way junction where in fact only 2 trails are visible. I ended up hiking the middle one (per map), and then 'shwhacked to the right from the lower end of the 2nd meadow, until I hit a good forest road near the creek. What IS needed to be done - at that jct. on 1st meadow head right off-trail through the meadow. When you re-enter the trees in 150 yards or so, the road appears out of nowhere - follow it downhill. The next junction with east trail is flagged and hard to miss.

Chris · February 20, 2012

Hmmm.. I still have no idea where this is. Rock of ages?

Roman · February 21, 2012

LOL no, one mountain SW of Hamilton, on Washington side :)

I remember your recent report from there.

Nat Turner · March 31, 2012

Shooting those arrows?

Nat Turner · April 1, 2012

After 12 minutes of Google stalking, Im sure I know where this is.

north or south approach?

got the map off summit post, read all D.N. notes.

looks most accessible from the north.

but the map does not show where the access connects to SR 14.

Roman · June 5, 2012

Nat - sorry I didn't see your question earlier. I used south approach. There are many more trails than even DN's map shows, one very good trail goes down from west viewpoint (which looks like dead end on the map). Very fun area!