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Summer at Buck Lake comes with high temperatures in the 60's. During the moonlight hours it's regularly in the 40's. For the duration of the winter highs are in the 30's, and night lows all through the winter for Buck Lake tend to be in the 10's. Yep, outdoors cool stuff to do are truly plentiful here at Buck Lake. Take some time to stop at Gifford Pinchot National Forest if you're here; camping is available at Morse Creek Campground. There's no way someone
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| | can get bored here in the Northern Cascade Range. A magnificent place for whitewater paddling near Buck Lake is Chinook Creek, and if you yearn for a little side journey, try Carlton Pass. Buck Lake gets lots of water; during the month of January you get the most snow around here, and July is the month with the least moisture. Yep, outdoors entertaining things truly is bountiful here in the Northern Cascade Range. Crag Lake is a great lake in the neighborhood | |
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of Buck Lake; if the weather is perfect, you can go for a hike along the Lake Trail. This lake is so wonderful. You can run the rapids of Summit Creek near Buck Lake, and a lovely lake like Fish Lake is a delightful site to have a
look at. Everybody nearby loves skiing at White Pass, and here at Buck Lake you can distinguish Crag Mountain. This lake is so wonderful. Gotta ski! Crystal Mountain is a perfect place to do that, and on a nice day you can take
a hike along the Jug Lake Trail. Buck Lake is located in the Northern Cascade Range. Howard Johnson Snoqualmie/Summit is a great place to get some rest. There is a great hiking trail in close proximity to Buck Lake called the Cowlitz Trail, and a wonderful location to camp here at Buck Lake is Soda Springs Campground.
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Coordinates: Latitude: 46.76889 Longitude: -121.4294
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| These outdoors activities are available near Buck Lake. |
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| | Hiking Trails Near Buck Lake:
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Lake Trail, Lewis County, 3 miles away 10.8 hiking miles, 1640 feet elevation difference |
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Jug Lake Trail, Lewis County, 3 miles away 13.4 hiking miles, 1307 feet elevation difference |
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Cowlitz Trail, Lewis County, 3 miles away 10.6 hiking miles, 2199 feet elevation difference |
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White Pass, Washington, 7 miles away 1500 vertical feet |
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| | Whitewater Near Buck Lake:
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Summit Creek, Lewis CountyCounty, 8 miles away Class V+ - 5 miles long (Soda Springs to Highway 123) |
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Chinook Creek, Pierce CountyCounty, 8 miles away Class IV-V - 5 miles long (Deer Creek to Cedar Flats) |
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 | Granite Lake has crystal clear water, is surrounded by a very primtive campground. I don't recall how many campsites there are, but I have never been there when there was more than one other party. The surrounding area is incredibly beautiful, well worth the extremely rough road in. 4 wheel drive only. There is an abandoned copper mine in the area, and if you can find the trailhead, (good luck), the scenery is breathtaking. I've been to the mine 3 times. Watch out for bears! There is a ghost town below the copper mine. Very little is left. There are picnic tables, no water and no bathrooms. Come prepared.... |
White Pass
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Sand Ridge Trail
 | The hike started out on the dry sandy rocky trail and with a slight grade up. After the 0.75 of a mile and 300 foot gain or so there was a fork; shortly after the you're ?entering the wilderness? sign, trail 1147, or Little Buck Trail is to the right. We haven't been on it, but it is suppose to be about a 0.9 of a mile and end up at the Indian Creek Trailhead and campground. After that fork Sand Ridge Trail, 1104, goes up for about 1 mile, and the foot gain for that mile is about 900 feet. According to the maps and the GPS we were using, the trail begins at about 3400 feet and goes to about 4600 feet. The last mile is like a standard up and down hike until the Shellrock Lake Trail junction, trail 1142 to the left, after that we don't know. Overall, for about the first 2 miles there is a 1200 foot gain in elevation, and then it evens out for a while. However, we had to turn around when we thought we were almost to the Shellrock Lake Trail junction due to a couple feet of snow pack and melt off.... |
Crystal Mountain
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