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Cascadian Wilderness Endurance Series

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  • Home
  • Rules and Guidelines
  • Routes
    • Devil's Dome
    • Olympic Coast
    • Mother Mountain
    • Easy Pass
    • Chinook Pass
    • Alpine Lakes Grand Tour
    • Graves Creek
    • Double Desolation
    • La Bohn Traverse
    • Windy Peak Lollipop
    • Spider on Steroids
    • Loowit Trail
    • Ben and Kevin
    • Owyhigh Lakes Loop
    • Shellrockin' Loop
    • Buckskin Ridge
    • Seven Lakes
    • Baker's Dozen
    • Big Jim and the Chiwaukum
    • Kettle Crest
    • Purple Rainbow
    • Ancient Lakes
    • Mount Aix Nelson Ridge
    • WAS Up
    • Oh Deer
    • 3 Sisters Challenge
    • Serene Minnesota
    • Patches
  • WIEC Routes
  • Facebook UPWC Route Beta
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Chinook Pass

Description

This 32 mile long loop begins at Chinook Pass on Highway 410. Choose between heading east towards Dewey Lake and then south to Anderson Lake, turning west on the Three Lakes Trail along Laughingwater Creek and then north near Silver Falls to follow the Ohanepecosh River along the Eastside Trail back to Chinook Pass OR doing the loop in the reverse direction, by following the Chinook Creek south, first. This is in the east side of the Mt. Rainier National Park and follows the Pacific Crest Trail for a stretch. East of the main Wonderland trail that encircles the mountain, this loop isn't as commonly explored. When you look at the Rainier map, though, the loop is obvious and just calls your name. 


This scenic loop offers a little bit of everything from rocky, high alpine country covered with wildflowers; to soft forested single track, cruisy and easily runnable; to virgin old growth forest along the delightful Ohanepecosh River, with wooden bridges, large boulders and both rapids and gently flowing bends.


Kathy says, "I did this loop as one of my first unsupported, ultra distance runs with Deby Kumasaka, Adam Gaston and Angel & Tim Mathis, while Ras was running his Double Wonderland in 2012. At the time, I had figured the elevation gain to be about 6,500 feet."

Details

By Kathy Vaughan 

2015


32 Miles / 6,500 Feet

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