Day Hike - Eunice Lake & Tolmie Peak Lookout

Meet at 9 AM at Wally's Drive-in, 282 WA-410, Buckley, located by the last traffic light at the north end of town.

Wally's Drive-in, our meeting place, opens at 8 AM, serves breakfast food and has restrooms.  We can consolidate cars there and leave the extra cars along a street near Wally's.  No parking pass is required there.  Then we will caravan south on SR 165  to the Y where we keep right onto the Mowich Lake Road.  At the Park boundary we will stop to use the restrooms there.  Any car without a National Park Pass must pay $30 for a day pass for their car and deposit the payment into a box, keeping the stub to display at the trailhead.  Any car with a National Park Pass, needs to display it at the trailhead.  Usually someone in each car has a pass.  If not, passes can be borrowed from those with two pass holders in a car, so no one should need to pay a Park entrance fee.

The trail to Tolmie Peak begins at the north end of Mowich Lake, where we park along the road.  The trail to Eunicee Lake follows a forested route, starting along the north side of Mowich Lake, continuing over a low saddle and then mostly level along a ridge to an overlook of the Carbon Glacier.  From there, the trail declines for a short distance before switchbacking up another ridge to Eunice Lake, which is nestled in alpine meadows.  After a short rest break there, we'll continue through both alpine meadows and a forest to the top of Tolmie Peak, which has a panoramic view of Eunice Lake in the foreground and Mt. Rainier in the background, weather permitting.  We'll have our lunch there and then return to Eunice Lake for a swim.  Then we hike out by the same route we hiked in.  

After returning to Wally's Drive-in, we'll have an optional stop there for refreshments.  The Wallyberry milkshake is my favorite.