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Horsemans Pack + Environs / 騎士包+周圍地區

Ever since my trip to Snowfield Peak three years ago, I had been itching to come back for some of the other peaks in the area.

Holliway Mountain involved getting into the Methow River Valley through Methow Pass.

Pup and I arrived at the Phelps Creek Trailhead late Friday to a lot full of trucks now that the hunting season had begun.

Due to wildfires in the last couple of years, the Entiat River Road had only been accessible to mile 32.

Two things I did differently on this trip and both had both worked out quite well.

Picket traverse = Mount Challenger + Phantom Peak + Crooked Thumb Peak

Five years had passed since we climbed the Sawtooth Slam via he mixed-use Crater Creek Trail.

Compared with its west fork counterpart, East Fork Buttermilk Trail (#420) felt much like a walk in the park.

West Fork Buttermilk Creek Valley was the first area in Lake Chelan-Sawtooth Wilderness we had visited

Coincidentally, the late afternoon start time was the same as our first trip from six years ago.

Five miles in from the Cedar Creek Trailhead, we crossed a good size stream at 4,500′.

This outing was our last backpacking trip to wrap up the climbing season.