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Backpacking: Washington: Overnight and Multiday Routes

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Veteran guidebook author Craig Romano hits the trail again to uncover amazing backpacking opportunities all over Washington’s wilderness. This second edition of Backpacking Washington details 80 routes, from the lush Hoh River Valley to breathtaking vistas in the North Cascades to the open ridges of the Columbia Highlands and beyond. With an emphasis on weekend trips, routes range from overnights to weeklong treks with suggested campsites and often include options for extending your trip. Features include:
  • Detailed route descriptions with up-to-date maps
  • All-new photographs
  • Mileage logs featuring campgrounds, water, and other highlights
  • Icons for family- and dog-friendly trips
  • Recommended nearby day hikes
  • Information about the Pacific Crest, Pacific Northwest, and Wonderland Trails
**Mountaineers Books designates 1 percent of the sales of select guidebooks toward volunteer trail maintenance. Since launching this program, we’ve contributed more than $14,000 toward improving trails.

For this book, our 1 percent of sales is going to Washington Trails Association (WTA). WTA hosts more than 750 work parties throughout Washington’s Cascades and Olympics each year, with volunteers clearing downed logs after spring snowmelt, cutting away brush, retreading worn stretches of trail, and building bridges and turnpikes. Their efforts are essential to the land managers who maintain thousands of acres on shoestring budgets.

ISBN-13: 9781680512212

Media Type: Paperback(2nd ed.)

Publisher: Mountaineers Books The

Publication Date: 06-01-2021

Pages: 352

Product Dimensions: 4.90(w) x 6.60(h) x 0.80(d)

Craig Romano is an awardwinning author or coauthor of more than twenty books. Romano also writes for numerous publications, tourism websites, and HikeoftheWeek.com. When not hiking, running, or writing, he can be found napping with his wife and son at their home in Skagit County, Washington. Visit him online at CraigRomano.com or on Facebook @craigromanoguidebookauthor.

Table of Contents

Trip Finder Map 8

Trips at a Glance 10

Introduction 17

How to Use This Book 37

Olympic Peninsula

1 Olympic Coast North: Shipwreck Coast 42

2 Olympic Coast South: The Wildcatter Coast 46

3 Enchanted Valley 50

4 Hoh River to Glacier Meadows 53

5 High Divide 57

6 Happy Lake Ridge 60

7 Press Expedition Traverse 64

8 Gray Wolf Pass and Cameron Pass Loop 69

9 Home Lake and Constance Pass Loop 74

10 Upper Lena Lake 77

11 Lake La Crosse 80

12 Flapjack and Black and White Lakes 85

13 Six Ridge 90

South Cascades

14 Trapper Creek and Observation Peak 96

15 Siouxon Creek 98

16 Indian Heaven Wilderness Lakes 102

17 Mount Adams: Devils Gardens 106

18 Loowit Trail 109

19 Mount Margaret Lakes Backcountry 113

20 Green River and Goat Mountain Loop 116

21 Tumwater Mountain Loop 119

22 Walupt Lake and Nannie Ridge Loop 122

23 Goat Lake and Hawkeye Point Loop 125

24 Dumbbell Lake and Tumac Mountain 128

25 Fryingpan Lake Loop 131

26 Echo Lake 135

Mount Rainier

27 Ipsut Creek and Seattle Park Loop 140

28 Sunset Park and Golden Lakes 143

29 Emerald Ridge and Klapatche Park 147

30 Northern Loop 150

31 Huckleberry Creek 155

32 Cougar Lakes and Three Lakes 159

Snoqualmie Region

33 Snoqualmie Lake 165

34 Williams Lake 166

35 Kaleetan Lake 170

36 Wildcat Lakes 174

37 Spectacle Lake 177

38 Waptus Lake 180

39 Deep Lake 183

40 Tuck and Robin Lakes 186

41 Marmot Lake 189

Central Cascades

42 Dishpan Gap 194

43 Necklace Valley 197

44 Chain and Doelle Lakes 200

45 Lake Augusta 203

46 Enchantment Lakes 206

47 Cradle Lake 210

48 Ladies Pass and Chiwaukum Lakes 213

49 Napeequa Valley via Boulder Pass 216

50 Buck Creek Pass 220

51 Lyman Lakes via Spider Gap 224

52 Mad Lake 228

53 Ice Lakes 232

54 Pyramid Mountain 236

North Cascades

55 Twin Lakes 242

56 Johnson Mountain and Blue Lake 245

57 Glacier Peak Meadows 248

58 Image Lake 252

59 Copper Ridge 255

60 Horseshoe Basin (Stehekin Valley) 259

61 Little Beaver and Big Beaver Creeks 262

62 East Bank Trail and Desolation Peak 266

63 Devils Dome and Jackita Ridge 270

64 Fisher Basin and Thunder Creek 274

65 Snowy Lakes 277

66 Wolf Creek 280

67 South Pass and Twisp Pass Loop 283

68 War Creek and Boulder Butte 287

69 Oval Lakes 290

70 Angels Staircase Loop 293

71 Corral Lake 297

72 Cathedral Lakes 300

73 Horseshoe Basin and Windy Peak (Pasayten) 304

Eastern Washington

74 Kettle Crest South 310

75 Kettle Crest North 313

76 Thirteenmile Trail 318

77 Salmo-Priest Loop 321

78 Shedroof Divide 324

79 Mount Misery Highline 328

80 Oregon Butte Loop 332

Acknowledgments 337

Appendix I Land Managers 338

Appendix II Recommended Reading 341

Appendix III Conservation and Trait Organizations 343

1% for Trails 344

Index 345