Third Burroughs

We are having beautiful fall weather and the road up to Sunrise at Mt Rainier National Park has been kept open. We decided to hike the 3 Burroughs Mountains while the road is still open. We hiked about 9 miles with 2,700 ft of overall elevation gain. We started by taking the trail from the south side of the parking area out to Shadow Lake and the Sunrise Rim Trail.

View of Mt Rainier from early on along the trail.

The shallow edges of Shadow Lake were frozen in the morning.

Nice reflection in Shadow Lake, the water level at the lake was low enough it was easy to walk all around the lake.

View of Mt Rainier over Glacier Basin

zoom looking at the pretty tarn in Glacier Basin and the White River flowing out form under the Emmons Glacier.

Looking east along Glacier Basin













Wide angle view of Mt Rainier and Glacier Basin as we hike along the south side of First Burroughs. Second and Third Burroughs are to the far right.
 Wide angle view to the north, in the far distance we could see Mt Baker, Mt Shuksan and Glacier Peak.

Trail up to Second Burroughs

Panoramic View of Mt Rainier from Second Burroughs

Hiking down from Second Burroughs, we had great views to the north: Skyscrapper Mtn, Grand Park and Mount Fremont in the near distance; Baker, Shuksan and Glacier Peak in the far distance.





View of Mt Rainier after the switchback coming down from Second Burroughs












Wide angle view of Mt Rainier from Third Burroughs

 Nice view of Winthrop Glacier from Third Burroughs













zoom of some of the crevices on Winthrop Glacier

This chipmunk was jumping all over the rocks while we had our lunch break.

Some more wide angle views of Mt Rainier from Third Burroughs

Was nice to look down towards the far end of the Winthrop Glacier, Mystic Lake and Old Desolate where we had hiked to in August

Nice view of Steamboat Prow, Interglacier and St Elmos Pass on Mt Rainier from Third Burroughs

After returning up and down Second Burroughs, we took the trail to the north side of First Burroughs, looking back at the top of First Burroughs and Second and Third Burroughs in front of Mt Rainier

We returned along the trail down the north side of First Burroughs to Frozen Lake then along Sourdough Ridge to return to the parking area.

 This part of the trail receives very little sun and the leftover snow was quite icy. We were glad we had our poles.

 Frozen Lake

 Trail along Sourdough Ridge, here looking down to Shadow Lake












North of Sourdough Ridge we could see Baker and Glacier Peak in the far distance behind McNeeley Peak