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| Date:
September 24, 2005 (Saturday) Trail
name:
Mt. Larrabee and Winchester Mountain Lookout
Location:
Mt. Baker - From the Glacier Public Service Centre on Highway 542, drive
20.5km to where you see the maintenance building (point A - see map
below). Turn north here onto Twin Lakes Road (Forest Service
Road 3065).
At 7.2km, pass the side road to Yellow Aster Butte trailhead.
(point B). The final 4km drive to Twin Lakes is a little bit
tough (point C)
Round trip:
2.5 hours for Mt. Larrabee; 1.5 hours for Winchester Mountain Elevation gain:
1,400 ft for Mt. Larrabee; 1,350 ft for Winchester Mountain |
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Point A - The forest services road next to the Maintenance
Building
Point B - The trail head to Yellow Aster Butte trail
Point C - The trail head to Mt. Larrabee and Winchester Mountain |
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| Pass by the Yellow Aster Butte trailhead and continue uphill to Mt.
Larrabee trailhead |
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Twin Lakes - looking back from half way up Mt. Larrabee.
Does it look like a blue-wing butterfly?
The trailhead is at the divider of the two lakes. We come up along
the forest services road of the right-hand side of the photo.
There are good camp sites along the lakeshore. |
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| Information board at the trailhead |
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| There is a cabin at the Winchester Lookout. |
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| A trail register - not so common in Canada. |
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The post at the trail intersection shows you the way to Mt.
Larrabee. The other direction is to Winchester
Mountain. We hike the Mt. Larrabee trail first then Winchester
Mountain Lookout. |
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| Mt. Larrabee is in front of us |
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Panoramic view of Mt. Larrabee (the rust-coloured pyramid). The
Pleiades are the peaks to the right.
The names of the further mountains are unknown to me.
Pleiades have 2 meanings: First, the seven daughters of Atlas turned into
a group of stars in Greek mythology.
Second, a conspicuous cluster of stars in the constellation Taurus
(Golden Bull) that includes six stars in the form of a very small dipper |
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| Unknown mountain |
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| Fall has crayoned the mountain into colourful patches - yellowish
green and scarlet red. |
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| The trail is easy. There are a lot of switchbacks. |
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| Looking down the valley - Summer is still lingering
around. |
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| Palette of colours reveals the footstep of Fall |
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Close-up view of Mt. Larrabee and Pleiades. We stay on the
bump at the right-hand of the photo.
Some adventurous hikers go up the peak of Mt. Larrabee. |
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| A portrait |
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The spectacular mountain views offer that "sea of peaks" effect
wherein the mountains are so numerous and in all directons that they
appear like waves.
Mount Shuksan
Mount Baker
Tomyhoi Peak
One row of peaks after another extending to infinity. |
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| Mount Baker |
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| Close-up view |
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| Pleiades at the left-hand side of the photo |
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| Pleiades at the backdrop |
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| On our way to Winchester Mountain. |
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| Walking along the red carpet laid down by the Nature |
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| Red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, violet - all sort of
colours carpeted the slopes |
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| Ripen blueberries |
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| Blueberries |
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| The cabin on top of Winchester Mountain |
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This 14-foot by 14-foot wood cabin built atop a 6,500-foot
peak in 1935. It is the most easily
reached fire lookout in the North Cascades. |
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| Look across from Winchester Mountain to Mt. Larrabee and Pleiades |
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| There are LP gas and furniture inside the cabin. |
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| It is clean and tidy. |
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Camony takes a rest and enjoys the dehydrated fruits.
Stay tune for our next trip report of Mt. Baker again. |
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