Trip
Alpine Scramble - Mount Carrie
You must have scrambled with me to request permission. Looking for an experienced group.
Contacts
- Thu, Jul 10, 2025 — Sun, Jul 13, 2025
- Kitsap Alpine Scrambling Committee
- Scrambling
- Adults
- Moderate/Strenuous, Strenuous
- Challenging
- Mileage: 26.0 mi
- Elevation Gain: 7,000 ft
- High Point Elevation: 6,996 ft
- Pace: 1000ft/hr
- 1 (3 capacity)
- 2 (3 capacity)
- Cancellation & Refund Policy
Tentative itinerary:
Thurs July 10: Meet 6pm at Sol Duc River TH. hike in 5 easy miles, camp on Sol Duc River (be in camp by 9pm; last light is 10pm.)
Fri July 11: hike 8mi, up 3600ft to Cat Basin with a swim in Heart Lake.
Sat. July 12: pre-dawn start. This will be a long day to summit Carrie, with exposed hiking to the Catwalk and start of our technical scramble. The Catwalk will take about 2hrs each way. After the Catwalk is a steep but easy meadow to a miserable sidehill scree slog, possibly with some snow, around a basin to the summit of Carrie. Then reverse, back to our camp by nightfall.
Sun: July 13: 10+mi out with a nice dip in Heart Lake.
July 10, 6pm Sol Duc River TH. Possible to carpool from my place in Port Angeles at 5pm.
Seven Lakes Basin & High Divide
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Green Trails Seven Lakes Basin/Mt Olympus Climb No. 133S
Custom Correct Seven Lakes Basin - Hoh
USGS Mount Carrie
USGS Bogachiel Peak - See full route/place details.
Required Equipment
- The Ten Essentials
- Helmet
- Mountaineering Boots
- Ice Axe
- Crampons or microspikes TBD.
- Possibly alpine or hasty harness, locking carabiners, prussiks (We'll have a rope, way to make anchor).
- Camping gear
- Group gear TBD (bear bag, water purification, 2 stoves, fuel, portable power, radios/communication devices)
- Bug spray and bug gear!!!
- Trekking poles