From the town of Winthrop, Washington, you drive about 25 miles out of town, mostly on dirt roads, to a 'pass' at 6500' elevation. There you park your vehicle and enter the trail. Minutes after that point you might already be winded and discouraged (like I was) by the strong expectation that there is 'no way' you're going to make it up another 1700 feet over 2.2 miles of travel. Let me be clear in stating that I am NOT in any way a true "hiker", but for personal reasons I wanted to hike up this 'easy' mountain trail. As you drive along the forest road enroute, you encounter an awesome vantage point from which Tiffany Mountain looks kind of intimidating. Nowthen, back to the trail: So there were many times when I contemplated the deep disappointment I'd have felt in the event I'd have to turn around, after driving all that way from Seattle with designs on reaching the summit of Tiffany Mountain. I stopped and rested a few times, sitting perhaps on a rock or tree stump. Then I trudged on, wearing a jacket (even though it was mid-August) and carrying a plastic bag of things I might need. Soon the steeper incline at the beginning of the trail gave way to grassy meadows filled with mountain wildflowers. (I later observed that it took 70 minutes just to get DOWN to that level from the top - longer to ascend for a winded and uncertain hiker) Note that Tiffany Mountain doesn't offer much of any shade at all. Trees can't even grow up near the summit, so any hiking you do will have you exposed to the elements. Warm sunshine seemed to slow me further, and of course it was just after I stopped to apply sunscreen that the sun went away - for good! Somewhere in there I acquired my second wind and then trudged hopefully nearer to the final ascent. Let me explain in some detail that there are no dangerous steps taken on this journey, and for your being so far out in silent nature, mosquitoes make so much relative NOISE, that you can hear them buzzing around you in time to squash them before they bite. They are there, though, and indeed I think I returned with perhaps 3 noteworthy bites. So up the trail I went, and a fellow hiker far more seasoned than I encouraged me by telling that the summit was perhaps just 20 minutes away. It gets steep and rather rocky near the very top, but again there are NO bad or dangerous steps on the hike up there. Indeed there is a steep cliff just over the summit, but it is of no danger to those using reasonable common sense. In mid-August there was still a pocket of snow holding strong against the summer days, but 'snow' isn't a serious factor if you hike in the summer or early fall. This is a summit which some like to ascend in the dead of winter, so it is clearly no major concern on summer days. I guess it is a reasonable test of somebody's physical endurance but I'd suggest that a reasonably fit, non-'hiker' could prove equal to the challenge. Tiffany Mountain would make for a great little adventure, especially for those who might travel to Winthrop, stay overnight, and set out early the next day for the mountain, before driving back to, say, western Washington in the evening after the hike. Just wanted to put this here for anyone who might gain from it.