Left: Partial View of the Route from Weeden Creek to Gothic Peak; Right: Foggy Lake
Length: 11.9 miles (according to our Garmin HCX)
Duration: 8.00 hours (8:30 am – 4:30 pm), includes 45 min lunch break
Elevation Gain: 2,361 ft @ Barlow Pass parking lot; 5,200 ft @ Foggy Lake
Location: North Cascades -- Mountain Loop Highway
For our eighth hike of the 2014 summer (and bringing us to 107.4 total miles this season), we climbed up to Foggy Lake and explored the lower reaches of Gothic Peak (WTA site). We hiked up beyond Foggy Lake, trying to reach Gothic Peak (6,213 ft), but we deemed it a bit too risky for our experience level. We topped out at 5,900 ft, on the east side of Gothic Peak. Despite that, it was still a great hike.
Left: Foggy Lake and Del Campo Peak; Right: Outlet of Foggy Lake
Left: Foggy Lake and View East; Right: Gothic Peak
Left: Reddish Rocks of Gothic Peak and Purple Backdrop; Right: Rocks of Gothic Peak
Left: Moss Among the Rocks; Right: Roots on the Hike Up
Views from Gothic Peak Looking South
Left: Lysichiton americanus (Yellow Skunk Cabbage) by Weeden Creek; Right: Sanguisorba stipulata (Canadian Burnet, Sitka Burnet) Below Weeden Lake
Parnassia fimbrata (Fringed Grass-of-Parnassus) on the climb to Weeden Lake
Left: Gentiana calycosa (Mountain Bog Gentian); Right: Erythranthe lewisii (Lewis’ Monkeyflower) – on the climb to Weeden Lake
Left: Luetkea pectinata (Patridgefoot) around Foggy Lake; Right: Tsuga mertensiana Cones – Western Slope of Gothic Peak
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