This glorious national park is packed with lush forests, gushing waterfalls, pretty lakes and streams and beautiful mountain scenery. Black Canyon of the Gunnison National Parkįamous for its jagged peaks and creaking glaciers, North Cascades National Park is a dream destination for adventurous hikers.Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks.This is an active search with Search and Rescue Teams from all over the area in a coordinated effort to locate Mr. Please do not go up to the mountain and search. The Sheriff’s Office plans to continue the search again on Monday morning. The search continued throughout the day but the subject was not located. The Skagit County Sheriff’s Office with assistance for Skagit County SAR and other county and municipal SAR groups from Western Washington began an official search on Sunday morning at 7:00 a.m. They spent the night hoping to continue their search in the morning. Two friends with mountaineering experience had hiked into the area to look for him but was unable to locate him. but had not been heard from since that morning. The hiker, Thomas Simonseth 66 year old male from Mount Vernon, had planned to take a day hike up the Hidden Lake Trail.
On Saturday, May 22nd at approximately 8:30 p.m., the Skagit County Sheriff’s Office received a report of an overdue hiker about 9 miles east of Marblemount. We are hopeful that the ceiling will be clear enough to launch a helicopter to aid in the search efforts. Today Tuesday 5-25-21 we have multiple Search and Rescue Teams back up on the mountain conducting a slow and methodical search for Tom.
Here's the point weather forecast for that area 11 miles east of Marblemount.
HIDDEN LAKE TRAIL NORTH CASCADES UPDATE
( Scroll down) Seems like the only update is the first two sentences about lack of good visibility for air search. This came from the Fox News website, the only news site that seemed to have a complete copy without going on to FB. Not much news, but here is an update from the Skagit County Sheriff's Office today. The snow was pretty melted out until just below Hidden Lake Pass on my trips.īest of luck to the searchers and Mr. I have looked through both sets of my photos from my two trips and don't seem to have any that look like this location. Just makes me wonder if this spot is the place where the other hikers turned around.
HIDDEN LAKE TRAIL NORTH CASCADES FULL
Note: You have to click on the side panel arrows to move them out of the way and get a full view. If the coast is clear, proceed, enjoying heather meadows. Extremely dangerous to cross without ice ax and appropriate skills, it may be necessary to call it quits, taking solace in prudence and a decent hike even to this point. Early season, or some years all summer, a treacherously steep snow gully may be present. This passage stuck out:Īt 3 miles a potential hazard may exist. He describes the Hidden Lake Lookout Trail quite well. I just happened to be reading Craig Romano's guide book on the North Cascades last night.
Mid-May is a bit early for that area for many of us. This is a time of least snow cover and the way is pretty clear. I have been up to Hidden Lake Lookout twice-years ago (2008) on September 1st, then just two years ago on August 1st. Simonseth had gotten to a point on the trail that they deemed too "treacherous" to proceed any further-after trying for 30 minutes to get past it. Usually they hide their emotions.įrom the Q13 video interview the hiker couple who encountered Mr.
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