Mount Ellinor - 7.8.2010

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My general route to Mount Ellinor.
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The trailhead starts at 3600 feet... a short hike... perhaps only 4 miles roundtrip... but it does gain 2300 feet of elevation.
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Ellinor from the parking lot... and my general route to the summit.
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Coming out of the trees at ~4500 feet... and a look at the ascent gully in the center of the photo.
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In the gully now and looking back on Lake Cushman.
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The gully narrows and gets steeper as you ascend.
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About two-thirds of the way up the gully I started traversing west across the south face of Ellinor... and I'm looking back at the gully.
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The south side of Ellinor... I will traverse to the lowest spot on the skyline.
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Lake Cushman is getting larger... and the south end of Hood Canal in the upper left.
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I've completed the traverse... time to more or less head straight up to the summit.
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On the Ellinor summit (5920+)... looking at Mt. Washington... with Hood Canal in the distance on the right.
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Pano shot of part of the Olympic Mountains from the Ellinor summit.
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Looking across Hood Canal and Puget Sound to Mount Rainier.
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A herd of goats in the lower right of the photo.
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The goat committee is deciding who to send up to check me out on the summit.
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This ragged old goat came up to check out ragman... didn't stay very long and returned to the herd.
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Parts of Hood Canal and Lake Cushman from the Ellinor summit area.
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Looking north at some of the Olympic Mountains.
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Looking north at some of the Olympic Mountains.
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I had missed the summer trail on the way up to the summit... but this pink ribbon got me back on track on my descent.
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Lake Cushman is one very big lake.
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Looking back up at part of the summer trail.
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Three hikers resting about two-thirds of the way up the gully.
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Mt. Ellinor and Mt. Washington... from the Alderbrook Inn near sunset.
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Mt. Ellinor and Mt. Washington... the next morning... from the dock at Alderbrook Inn.