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Lookouts and High Places August Hikes

Field trip: Lookouts and High Places

Lookouts and High Places August Hikes - Bullion Basin & Bear Gap

**Trip initially open to Lookouts and High Places Day Hiking Series students. Trip will open for registration to all Mountaineers 7 to 10 days prior to the hike date.**

Contacts

Don Thompson
Don Thompson
Primary Leader
  • Moderate
  • Challenging
  • Mileage: 7.7 mi
  • Elevation Gain: 2,000 ft
  • High Point Elevation: 6,300 ft
  • Pace: 1.5 - 2.0

We will start at the Crystal Mountain Ski Area to Bullion Basin and then south on the Pacific Crest Trail past Crown Point, through Pickhandle Gap, past Pickhandle Point to Bear Gap where and then dropping down toward Henskin Lake and return to the Crystal Mountain resort area on the Silver Creek Trail.

https://www.wta.org/go-hiking/hikes/bullion-basin

We will meet 9 a.m. at the Crystal Mountain Ski Area ticket booths

The leaders will be camping at Crystal Mountain Ski Area the night before the hike.  We may not likely to have cell service there .

Route/Place

Bullion Basin & Bear Gap


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Required Equipment

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