Iron Bear

Yesterday, we drove out to the east side of the Teanaway to hike up to Iron Bear. We started from the Iron Creek Bear Creek Trailhead No. 1351. This was a 6.5 mile round trip hike with 1,900 ft of gain.

There were lots of wildflowers in bloom along the trail.

View to the south as we hiked up to the ridge.

On the ridge, our trail joined the Teanaway Ridge Trail. Iron Peak can be seen behind the trees on the left.

As we continued up the trail, we could see Mt Rainier to the southwest in the distance.

View to the northeast as we continued up towards Iron Bear.

View of a distant Mount Stuart from near the top of Iron Bear.

From Iron Bear, we could see Mt Adams, the Goat Rocks and Mt Rainier to the southwest,

and the the northwest: Mount Stuart snd some of the Teanaway Peaks

some of the many wildflowers we saw along the trail: