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Hike · Chiwaukum Creek trailhead

Chiwaukum Creek

Distance
10.8 mi
Vertical
4,724 ft
Summit
6,755 ft
Difficulty
Very strenuous

Chiwaukum Creek drains a quiet, deep north–south valley on the eastern side of the central Cascades, gathering its water from the basins between the Chiwaukum Mountains and McCue Ridge before joining the Wenatchee River near U.S. 2. The drainage sits inside the Alpine Lakes…

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Looking down to Chiwaukum Lake from McCue Ridge, with Larch Lake to the right — the upper basin that the Chiwaukum Creek drainage opens onto.
Wilderness trespasser · CC BY-SA 4.0
Panorama of the Chiwaukum Mountains from the high country, with serrated peaks rising above the long forested valley that carries the creek east to the Wenatchee River.
Walter Siegmund (talk) stitched by Marku1988 This image was created with Hugin. · CC BY-SA 3.0
Mid-range view of the Chiwaukum Mountains over the Chiwaukum Creek drainage, a north–south fold of the Cascades within the Alpine Lakes Wilderness.
Walter Siegmund (talk) · CC BY-SA 3.0
Big Chiwaukum in deep winter, the snow-loaded north flank rising above subalpine forest at the head of the creek.
Martin Bravenboer · CC BY 2.0

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