Mount Fremont Lookout

Drove up to Sunrise at Mt Rainier National Park to hike up to the Mount Fremont Lookout, 5.6 miles round trip with 900 ft of overall gain. Beautiful day! View of Mt Rainier from a short ways up towards Sourdough Ridge.

View to the north alond the Sourdough Ridge Trail, zoom of Glacier Peak to the far north

Views of Mt Rainier along the Sourdough Ridge Trail, small squirrel enjoying the view in first photo

zoom towards the southeast, peaks rising above the clouds

Frozen Lake and Mount Fremont, just before the junction with the Mount Fremont Lookout Trail

First, Second and Third Burroughs Mountains in front of Mt Rainier

Along the Mount Fremont Trail looking north to the distant lookout

View of Mt Rainier near the lookout

Mount Fremont Lookout and views through the windows of the lookout

Views from the lookout deck: Mt Rainier to the south, Grand Park below and distant Cascade Peaks to the northeadt, to the northwest the West Fork of the White River

Douglas squirrel fattening up for winter, he alternated between burying his food and digging it back up to nibble on

On the way back down the trail, view of Frozen Lake and nearby peaks

View of Mt Rainier along the Sourdough Ridge Trail

Most of the wildflowers are gone, but there were pasqueflower seed heads and some other flowers still in bloom along the trail:

Mount Fremont Lookout

We drove up to Sunrise at Mt Rainier National Park to hike to the Mount Fremont Lookout. We started on the Sunrise Rim Trail to Sunrise Camp, then up to Frozen Lake and on to the lookout. After returning to Frozen Lake, we returned via the Sourdough Ridge Trail, 6.5 miles with 1,060 ft overall gain. Beautiful day, lots of wildflowers and gorgeous views!

View of Mt Rainier from the Sunrise Rim Trail

Lots of wildflowers blooming in the forested part of the trail.

Mother grouse, her chicks were too fast for me to get photos.

Reflection at Shadow Lake, the water level was too high to walk around the lake today.

Lots of heather in bloom along the open trail, First Boroughs in the distance.

We had one large and two small snow patches to cross on our way up to Frozen Lake.

Frozen Lake

Close up of the snow on Frozen Lake

View of Frozen Lake and a flower filled meadow on our way up the Mount Fremont Lookout Trail

Many great views of Rainier along the trail:

About 1/2 way up the trail, it levels out a bit and the lookout can be seen in the far distance at the end of the trail>

Large rock resembles a face

Getting closer to the lookout

Mt Rainier from in front of the lookout

View looking through the lookout

View to the north and distant peaks

zoom of Glacier Peak

zoom of other peaks

zoom of Mount Stuart and other Enchantment Peaks (getting hazy there)

View to the northeast

On the way back, we saw a marmot on the trail

We waited for him to scurry off (zoom)

Frozen Lake (zoom) as seen on our hike back down the trail

Clouds moving in over the mountain

a couple of chunks of ice have broken off the snow field and are floating on Frozen Lake

more clouds over Mt Rainier as we head down the Sourdough Ridge Trail

View looking down towards Shadow Lake on the left

zoom of Shadow Lake below

zoom of a large buck resting below the Sourdough Ridge

wildflowers in bloom below Sourdough Ridge

View to the north from one of the "gaps" in the rocks wall of Sourdough Ridge

Mt Rainier as seen as we descend to the parking area back at Sunrise

some of the wildflowers seen along the trails today: