Tag: Granite Mountain

This hike is a butt burner but well worth it for the views at the top. The incline starts as soon as the trail spilts…

Once you break the tree line there are quite a few options to get to the peak.  The primary route has you winding to the…

Misty cool weather summer day hike, pro – no crowd and no bug, cons – no view

Hike was beautiful, views of Rainier and all surrounding mountains.  Few people on the trail.  Awesome hike.

A great hike – very fun, with excellent views on the way up. Incredible view of Mt Ranier as we snacked at the top, and…

Great day with wonderful weather. Views were amazing. Flowers were out and so were the insects…wear bug spray. Trail was well maintained and not too…

Weather was perfect. Trail was a bit easy to lose in a few places, but easy enough to find again; just keep going up. There…

Started our hike at 7:30am on a cloudless Monday. Parking lot had maybe 6 cars. Easily marked at the bottom and at the one turning…

One minute was sunny, the next was foggy, the next was raining. It was quite an adventure! Lots of wildflowers, a few deer, plus a…

We started early and didn’t start running into people untill the way down which was very nice for this regularly extremely busy hike. We went…

It all started it out so beautifully. Old-growth forest towering above, making your way up to beautiful wild flowers, an avalanche chute turned waterfall, gorgeous…

Fun hike with my Dad, Husband, Niece, and 3 kids: 15,13,10.

We saw so many wildflowers! There were so many in bloom, it was fun to learn the new ones! We saw flowers until we reached…

Great sunny day for a hike like Granite! First time and had amazing time.  Got to the TH just after 8am on Thursday, only about…

My wife dog and I did this in six hours top to bottom, with a 40 minute break at the top. It was very snowey…

Hike was great, we did short cut going up by the ridge to avoid those 5 avalanche chutes. it was overcast.

Beautiful sunny day hike with friends.  Used crampons to hike straight up to look out.

Lots and lots of snow from the storm coming through

Not much of a view from the top due to the clouds and falling snow but it was still a great day and a great…