Washington pass to Steheiken beta request

[Slog]

I'm being invited on a hike from Washington pass to Steheiken in September. Will someone please point me to some good info on this hike?

[DirtyHarry]

Go to Bridge Creek trail and hike south east.

[JoshK]

Here is the beta: follow the trail.

[Off_White]

If it's the trail hike, Harry's got it right, it's just a simple 15 mile or so jaunt down the Bridge Creek trail, pretty much downhill all the way.

 

You could make it much more interesting of course: Over Easy Pass, down Fisher Creek, up onto the Douglas Glacier (or slabs below the glacier) of Logan, over the shoulder into the N Fork Bridge creek, and down to Bridge Creek that way, much more alpine and scenic. There are other alpine traverses around Black and Fisher Peaks, Silent Lakes, and Fisher Pass.

 

The trail is sort of like tuna on white bread, but if you're looking for more info on it you might do better on nwhikers.net

[mattp]

It should be quite pleasant in September. The bugs should have gone by then and earlier in the month there should be a lot of blueberries whereas later in the month you may start to see some trees turning color. Watch out for snobs from cascadedclimbers.com, running past you with their Mt. Goode racks and acting superior.

[DirtyHarry]

Who needs a rack for Mt. Goode?

[mattp]

At least a half rack.

[DirtyHarry]

Only you elitist cc.com types would bring beer to Mt. Goode.

[Blake]

If you do the hike down bridge creek, its 12 slightly downhill miles to teh stehekin road, then 3 miles along the washed-out road to where cars can get to. If you hike down rainbow creek, then it's ~20 miles, you go over mcalester pass (6000') and you end up 2.5 miles up-valley from the stehekin landing, and near the bakery too!

[mc_tree]

You can do an interesting trip by going either to Blue Lake and over the ridge to Copper Basin, go up another ridge and off trail hike to an unnamed lake north of Dagger Lake and rejoin a trail at Dagger Lake. You could also go south from the ridge south of South Early Winter Spire and then into Copper Basin.

[Blake]

You can do an interesting trip by going either to Blue Lake and over the ridge to Copper Basin, go up another ridge and off trail hike to an unnamed lake north of Dagger Lake and rejoin a trail at Dagger Lake. You could also go south from the ridge south of South Early Winter Spire and then into Copper Basin.

 

The "unnamed lake" N. of Dagger is Stilleto Lake.

[mc_tree]

Thanks, Stilleto Lake, seems right. I have the vintage maps (1969) which show only the elevation of the lake as 6795. My Washington Pass quad from the same time doesn't show a road over Washington Pass.

[magellan]

Sadly, that is the most current 7.5 topo. WTF, update it after a major highway is built, and a half dozen trails relocated. It's only been 37 years.