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Leech Lake is a lake worth visiting. This lake is one of the great places here in the Northern Cascade Range. There are some great whitewater spots on Cispus River, and if you've had enough of Leech Lake, Hell Lake is nearby. What a location this is for outdoors folks. White Pass is a great location to look at, and a good close by hotel is Suncadia Resort. You'll need more than a day to look at everything Leech Lake has to offer, you can camp at Knuppenburg
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| | Lake Campground, and you can have a great hiking adventure along the Dark Meadows Trail. This lake is so wonderful. If the weather is nice here at Leech Lake, you can go for a hike along the Sand Lake Trail, and get yourself into a kayak and hit Cowlitz River - Clear Fork. This lake is so wonderful. White Pass is a magnificent local ski area, and Leech Lake is not the only site nearby, Ginnette Lake is a nearby lake. All the water falling down from the | |
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sky makes Leech Lake a wet site; through January this area sees the most snow, and July is the month with the least moisture. Life's too short to enjoy all the exciting stuff in the Northern Cascade Range. The slopes of Crystal Mountain
are so inviting nobody can resist, and Pigtail Peak is beautiful and can be distinguished from here. So much cool stuff in the Northern Cascade Range, just extraordinary. While you're here at Leech Lake you can take a hike along
the Cramer Lake Trail, and you can stay the night at White Pass Campground. Summertime highs at Leech Lake mostly tend to be in the 60's; the overnight is somewhat colder of course, regularly in the 40's. Highs all through the wintertime are mostly in the 30's with temperatures at Leech Lake dipping down into the 10's during winter nights.
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Coordinates: Latitude: 46.64222 Longitude: -121.3861
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| | Hiking Trails Near Leech Lake:
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Dark Meadows Trail, Yakima County, 1 miles away 2.7 hiking miles, 619 feet elevation difference |
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Cramer Lake Trail, Yakima County, 2 miles away 6.2 hiking miles, 869 feet elevation difference |
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Sand Lake Trail, Lewis County, 3 miles away 7 hiking miles, 1973 feet elevation difference |
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White Pass, Washington, 0 miles away 1500 vertical feet |
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| | Whitewater Near Leech Lake:
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Cispus River, Lewis CountyCounty, 12 miles away Class V - 4 miles long (Goat Creek to FR 2160) |
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Chinook Creek, Pierce CountyCounty, 13 miles away Class IV-V - 5 miles long (Deer Creek to Cedar Flats) |
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White Pass
 | ...BR>The White Pass experience starts with a bountiful snowfall (350'' in an average season) and with the highest base elevation on the crest of the Washington Cascades. The resort strikes a perfect balance between pulse quickening steeps, wide open cruisers and gentle learning areas with 33 percent of the terrain geared toward experts, 43 percent toward intermediates and 24 percent toward beginners. Nothing gets you to the top faster than the Great White Express, Washington's only Doppelmayr high-speed detachable quad. Great White can take you from the base to the summit in five minutes. White Pass is recognized as one of the greatest mountains to ride in the Northwest. Natural quarter-pipes, kickers, drops, cornices and chutes challenge even the most experienced boarder. It offers a half-pipe. It's got one of the most scenic and well-maintained cross-country areas in the Northwest. The 18 km of double track, which allows both classic and skating, circles a picturesque lake and then climbs into the Wenatchee National Forest. The White Pass Learning Center has developed ... |
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.... |
Granite Lake
 | 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.... |
Crystal Mountain
 | 15 miles away 4 PHOTOS Crystal Mountain is a big mountain with all kinds of skiing available, easy, hard, you pick. The scenery is great, and so is the snow.... |
Rimrock Lake
 | 17 miles away Robin, you can have fires in camp at Rimrock as long as there are no fire bans in the Wenatchee National Forest, you can find out if there is a ban by going to the Naches Ranger Station online or along Highway 12 going through Naches up White Pass....When is the best time to troll for silvers in Rimrock Lake?...Would like to now if we are allowed to have camp fires at rimrock lake.... |
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