Carbon river/glacier hike.

[Fordzuki]

I just can't get enough of the carbon river area. We went up looking for surprise lake, I think we may have found it...:eeek: maybe... It was a large body of water, wouldn't exactly classify it as a lake though.

The "lake" to the left is about 3 feet higher than the road here. :eeek:

 

[Fordzuki]

Stopped for lunch. :redneck:

Tolmie Peak up there at the top.

The tip of mt. rainier

 

[Boonie Buster]

Awesome! I didnt see the Mowich Lake pics, those are sweet!

 

[Fordzuki]

Figured while we were on the hill we might as well hit Coplay too.

And East Lake. :haha:

Coplay from above...

Stopped at the bridge to see Cayada creek on the way down.

Burnt mountain

And if you look real close, you'll see bigfoot...:stirpot:

 

[clifty]

sweet pics. i wanna see the video of you sliding down the hill:awesomework:

 

[Fordzuki]

Went camping above coplay this weekend, here's some pics.
Camp

Mmmm. Breakfast both days, bacon, seasoned (burnt) potatoes, and cheesy scrambled eggs.

Hiked up above eastlake.

Got to the top of bear mountain for this view..

Little lake about half way up that feeds into eastlake.

Got back to camp and had lunch, went down to coplay for some fishing (lure losing) and headed up above to the summit lake trailhead.

 

[Fordzuki]

Headed up the summit lake trail, and came to twin lake first.

There's snow in them there hills...

A pretty flower pic just for boonie buster.

The view from the "toilet". Wish I had this kind of view from my toilet.:redneck:

The shoreline of summit lake.

And cooking breakfast this morning before breaking camp.

 

[Money Mark]

Rad. I love seeing folks enjoy the outdoors.

 

[Boonie Buster]

Those flowers are the best part! :fawkdancesmiley:

Awesome pics as always! :awesomework:

 

[supsa]

So you can drive up to the summit lake parking area? It was washed out for some time. Tried a few years ago to make it but got turned away

 

[Fordzuki]

Yep, they've got the road fixed. :cheer:

 

[ChopTop84]

summit lake parking area was open all winter. You can see where they made the repairs to the road, as its a little scary in a full size truck in the snow!! Its wide enough, you just cant tell from all the snow.

Its forest road 7810, and they still list it as open on the FS page.

 

[Fordzuki]

Eunice Lake and Tolmie Peak

A buddy and I decided to head up to Mowich today to hike up to Eunice Lake and the Tolmie lookout tower. Turns out it was a free weekend, so it was packed.

Looked like this for about the last 1.5-2 miles of road up to the lake. Found a spot just big enough for the sami luckily, so it wasn't a long walk to the trailhead.

About halfway between Eunice and the ridge.

 

[Fordzuki]

The carbon river down there, and the Olympics WAY out there in the distance.

You can just barely make out Baker if you look close.

Eunice from the tower.

St. Helens in the distance.

 

[notstock]

Very nice pictures:awesomework:

 

[Fordzuki]

Lunch. :redneck:

A little better shot of Baker.

The high dive.

And of course, a nice crack rock. :haha:

Great day of hiking, followed by bbq and beers. Couldn't have been a better day.

 

[k2blazen]

Nice pics:awesomework:you ever been up to high rock look out?

 

[Fordzuki]

Not yet...

 

[Boonie Buster]

Lame.





























:fawkdancesmiley:
I have yet to be over in that area. This weekend was PACKED up there!

I like those panorama pics! :awesomework:

 

[Fordzuki]

Lame.

Almost forgot. Is this better? :fawkdancesmiley:

Thanks. We've got one more hiking/camping trip planned for this summer, hoping to make it to the glacier from the mowich side, through the spray park/echo cliffs area.