"September 7, 2025. Left home at 3:30am-ish. Started hiking at 7am. Heard sandhill crane from the trailhead. Heard pika from the boulder fields. Lots of young western toads leaving the lakes. A few California tortoiseshell were still around. Hit the ridge and then the summit block. Did some scouting and went left/north around the summit block. Only a couple of short exposed moves. There was a well worn path to the summit, Summited at 10:40am. Down climbed back down. Talked to a few people on their way up and some were going right on the summit block and some brought ropes. Back at the rig just before 2, just in time to miss the rain. This was my final Oregon Cascades volcano. Just a few more on the list of 20 remaining. " — runningvegan • Sep 7, 2025

"Rather depressing hike through a recovering burn area. I had been intentionally avoiding this hike for years, but today was the day. 20 lb carry to test the back out for the first time. Went well on to more!" — oregon-mt-goat • Jun 28, 2025

"Jon drove down and we got a noon start on Broken top. Super pretty hike out to Green lakes. The short 5th class wasn’t too bad but it was a bit loose so we ended up rapping it. The catwalk was super mellow as well. Went for a swim on the way out and saw hundreds of tiny frogs." — MatthewWinterberg • Sep 23, 2024

"3 am start time did not translate into a sunrise summit today, but not far behind! Got my mountain shadow shot with perfect temps and light breeze. Nice to stand on the mountain that started it all one more time!" — oregon-mt-goat • Jul 19, 2024

"Don’t think I went up the standard way , but it went . I biked from Dutchman flat sno park as I thought I could avoid wilderness permit , but when I got to TH it seemed like they wanted me to have one anyway. Confusing! Thankfully the Gestapo weren’t out checking papers today. Todd lake trail is nice and cruisy all the way to green lake campground. From there I headed right toward the waterfall that you can see on the mountain in the distance , and a faint trail provides loose, but class 1 access to the base of lewis glacier peak where it merges with standard trail. Lewis glacier peak shouldn’t take more than 15-20 mins . From there it got kind of annoying , wasn’t expecting it to be that loose and dusty. On the rim, I dropped down a class 3 exit and scree slid down pretty much all the way to the saddle and then walked up to hodge crest . I would track a gps or make sure you know what exit you take as it all looks the same on the way back up. It is also extremely loose to get back. Once you are back on , its smooth sailing to top. The best part about this was definitely the waterfalls after green lake , and the alpine lakes at the junction. I even took a quick little nap at the hig..." — joshortman • Aug 25, 2023