Winter Scramble - Sopwith Camel Mountain

"Ten, twenty, thirty, forty, fifty or more, the bloody Red Baron was rolling up the score."  Why was this earworm rattling around in my brain? Because we were climbing Sopwith Camel, the name of a World War One fighter plane flown by Snoopy in the 1966 hit song "Snoopy Vs. the Red Baron".  

Sopwith Camel (the mountain) is an obscure, seldom-climbed peak south of Stevens Pass, just above Mig Lake.  Despite a forecast for rain, we followed the Tunnel Creek trail to Hope Lake, where little bursts of sunlight made the fresh snow sparkle. 

We then followed the Pacific Crest Trail to the nearby Mig Lake. Sopwith Camel hovers 400 feet above Mig Lake. We scrambled up to the summit, arriving just in time for lunch. With time to spare, we decided to climb a similar-sized bump on the other side of Mig Lake, the unnamed Peak 4734. We christened it "Fokker Triplane" in honor of the warplane that the Red Baron flew in his epic battle with Snoopy and his Sopwith Camel. (It is now so-named in Peakbagger and we are credited with its first ascent.)

We returned to the car minutes before dark and minutes before the forecasted rain arrived with a vengeance.