Windy Knob and Tronsen Head - 2.10.2016
A photo of the GPS track of our trip to Tronsen Head and Windy Knob... 7.5 miles roundtrip, gaining 2442 feet of elevation.
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A Sno-Park permit is required if you park at the large parking lot at Blewett Pass... however, there is free parking .7 miles east of the pass... room for perhaps 6 cars.
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You will see this sign where we parked (3938')... this is one of the access points for Tronsen Basin Ski Trails.
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I added the red dots to the Tronsen Basin map showing our approximate route.
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We only hiked the trail system for an eighth of a mile... then took a direct route along a rib in the direction of Windy Knob.
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Eventually we connected with the Upper Tronsen Trail... and are heading toward Windy Knob in the distance.
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We will leave the Upper Tronsen Trail and take the Lillaby Tie Trail up to the Haney Meadow Trail.
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BarbE and Izzy on the Haney Meadow Trail.
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Heading for Windy Knob on the Haney Meadow Trail... snowshoeing through the burned forest.
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Windy Knob from the Haney Meadow Trail.
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Out of the forest and looking at Windy Knob.
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Izzy leads BarbE and Snowdog up toward the gap between Windy Knob (left) and Diamond Head (right).
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Gaining elevation toward the gap between Windy Knob and Diamond Head.
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Just before reaching the gap we headed steeply uphill toward Windy Knob.
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BarbE and Snowdog on a very windy Windy Knob (5928')... with Teanaway Peaks and the Stuart Range in the distance... Diamond Head is in the left foreground.
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Tronsen Head from Windy Knob... we will have to give back some elevation to get over there.
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From the Windy Knob summit we hiked down to the gap between Windy Knob and Diamond Head... looking back at Diamond Head.
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On the way to Tronsen Head... traversing around one of the drainages that feeds Tronsen Creek.
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Connecting with the View Ridge Loop Trail that we will follow up to Tronsen Head.
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Snowdog and Izzy absorb the sunshine on Tronsen Ridge.
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Izzy takes a break on Tronsen Ridge.
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Izzy is first to the Tronsen Head summit (5988').
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A selfie from Tronsen Head... with Windy Knob and Diamond Head behind us.
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Windy Knob and Diamond Head in the left foreground... with clouds forming over the Teanaway peaks and Stuart Range.
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Continuing east along Tronsen Ridge.
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Continuing east along Tronsen Ridge... looking for a good place to get off of the ridge and head back down to Tronsen Meadow... Haney Meadow below us on the right... with Mt. Lillian in the foreground... and Mission Ridge in the distance.
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Off of Tronsen Ridge now and working our way back toward Tronsen Meadow.
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Heading back to Tronsen Meadow.
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Lets not try and go through that maze.
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Still working our way back to Tronsen Meadow.
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We have found the Upper Tronsen Trail... and will follow it back toward Windy Knob.
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On the Upper Tronsen Trail.
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On the Upper Tronsen Trail... looking back up at Tronsen Head and Windy Knob.
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On the Upper Tronsen Trail... heading toward Diamond Head... almost at the spot where we will close the loop portion of our trip.
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Back on the rib we used at the beginning of our day... 10 or 15 minutes from the car.
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