NOTE: did I mention how many mosquitos this summit has?
I worked this summit with my Dad while staying at Lemolo Lake KOA.
The climb is very straightforward but I would bring a bug screen as they were alerted to our presence and followed us up the whole way. Once we killed off all the brave ones and we cooled off, it settled down to a reasonable experience.
This one-point summit is likely not worth the time driving 40 minutes RT on forest roads. In fact, the roads in this area are quite convoluted - I found it best to navigate using GPS with turn-by-turn directions. You may end up bushwacking through a tangle of coastal brush...or get lucky and find a way to the path visible on sattelite images that I found after the fact. Any "hike" might be less than 0.10 mile and several hundred feet of gain.
Cady Mountain, W7W/RS-084 has been on my radar for a while. My wife's family owns a home in Friday Harbor so I have always wanted to activate this summit. I was bummed by ATN's report that it would be difficult to activate from the south side because of private property, so I did not think I could. I arrived here on Saturday and I started looking at GAIA GPS. I could see there was public property owned by the San Juan County Land Bank to the north of the summit that was still in the AZ. I could see a hiking trail just below it. I decided to give it a try.
This summit is accessed from Highway 20 in the Island Park area whether coming from the north or the south. The road west you take is marked as Antelope Flats Road and has a large historical marker at the entrance. This is a dirt/gravel road.
This summit is located 6 miles East of Lava Hot Springs, Idaho. Take Highway 30 East towards Fish Creek Summit and turn South approximately 1 mile from Lava Hot Springs onto Baldy Mtn Road. Stay on the main paved road which heads South and the turns into gravel/dirt road. Watch for a sign on your left that says State access 1.5 miles. You will come to a junction near 42.547° -111.900°.
NC-075 is an unremarkable peak in the Tillamook State Forest. Easy enough to accomplish if you happen to be nearby or in a completionist mood.
Access appears to be available from the west at the coast near Wheeler, but I routed from the east near Triangulation NC-005.
FS6801 Rd is not obscure to find and clear of windfall until about 1 mi. in. Directions to FS6801 are available by other blog entries. Going east on FS60, if you get to the PCT, you've gone too far.
From where I parked (see map below), it was a 2.75 mi road hike. Even if the windfall logs (4 of them) were cleared, the maple, alder, and doug fir are growing into the road space, meaning a few scratches on vehicles. The road ends at a turn-around location with great views of Mt. Hood to the south. There was a 1000 ft elev gain for this track.
Fair warning, this one is a bit of a tricky one. This summit doesn't have a trail to the top at all. You could possibly access it from the Mountain lakes loop trail but it would be a very steep scramble over loose rock, it looked a bit too dicy to me when I did my scouting hike around the loop a few months earlier. I elected, instead, to use part of the old moss creek trail which was abandonded by the forest service but is still maintained by individuals. The old moss creek trailhead is located on land owned by green diamond and is only open to vehicle traffic
I got on here to correct/ edit my previous blog but realized I never did a first! I've done Burton a few times and it isn't that significant in features. Just an easy stroll through the timber. Plenty of area to set up. A nice easy trek, shaded summit but no view. No established trail but the dead end road you can continue on by foot and there are other cleared out areas from logging roads many years ago. For some reason I get discombobulated easily coming down Burton and sometimes come to far left nearly missing the spur. If you are like me, keep a tracker going.
