"Trillium* Linkup of Washington, Pershing, and Ellinor in a day. With Scott Y. Special thanks to Myles for many days of effort making this route work out. 10k of vert in 12 miles in 17hrs. What a ton of work but the remoteness and knife edge ridges and multiple rappels made this worth it. FKT/OKT" — castrode • Aug 13, 2022

"Summitted many times in the past but not this time. Wanted to do the north chute ski descent but too committing as a solo. The south couloir, well, too committing and steep! The winter route is almost done - its only got a few more days left before its impassible to a majority of hikers. The summer route is coming in full and the bowl is definitely a fun ski!" — castrode • Jun 25, 2022

"3am start, leaving straight from work. Warm night, warmer day. We summitted shortly after sunrise. Started heading down ASAP due to snow conditions deteriorating in the heat. There were a few snow bridges on the way up, but all avoidable on the way down. " — danabjurstrom • Jun 22, 2022

"This is the north couloir of Ellinor (not the winter or summer route). Snow level at 4300'. Winter route is in great condition if you leave TH at 0630. Glissade is perfect by 0900hrs. " — castrode • Jun 13, 2022

"Such a good trail; seems like the maintenance team has done a ton of work on it since I last hiked Ellinor a few years ago. Bravo! Good, cool conditions. Zero snow whatsoever, which was very different from the first time. In the middle of a cloud as we got above about 5,000 feet, so there was no visibility from the summit. Nice views of Cushman and the Hood Canal started peeking out on the way down. Beautiful wildflowers. A great day!" — andrewmadsen • Aug 8, 2021

"Hiked Mount Ellinor via the upper trailhead and the winter route up today, and the summer route down in beautiful bluebird conditions! Road Beta: Snow free to lower TH. Past this, there is snow and ice as the road appears to be in the shade most of the day. If you have a decent 4X4/AWD, don't let this deter you. The road becomes bare and very drivable. I went past the TH to Washington, and the hairpin turn to the upper TH prior to turning around as my hiking partner did not like the road conditions. Initially, past the hairpin turn, it looked dicey, but becomes bare and wet for at least half the road. You can go about 3/4 of the way in a decent, high clearance, AWD, 4WD - I saw at the top trailhead, a 3rd Gen 4Runner and built Toyota Tacoma pickup. The last pic shows the road condition just below the upper TH. You will need a high clearance, lifted vehicle to make it. A Subaru with MaxxBoards was parked about 3/4 of the way up the road, and a Honda Pilot reversed down the road as I never saw it parked. The center snow pile is difficult to clear. If you drive vehicles similar to those in the last pic, you can make it all the way up. Otherwise, you can park about 3/4 o..." — markhadland • Nov 28, 2020

"With the recent lack of any trip reports on Mt. Ellinor we were expecting a possible repeat of last year's attempt to get to the lower trailhead, which ended up with us having to dig the 4Runner out of snow half way up. We were pleasantly surprised to find next to no snow on the road until right before the lower trailhead. It looked like a lot of snow and ice beyond, and we wanted to start low anyways, so off we went from the lower trailhead - only 4 cars there when we left. The lower trail is snow free and a beautiful path through old growth - A wonderful place to be as the sun was rising. Before hitting the turnoff for the winter trail, 2 of the parties ahead of us were coming back down (and we thought we started early!). Both told us they had turned back before the summit: One due to hazardous snow melt out with running water underneath, and the other because of icy conditions somewhere around the avalanche chute. Since they looked reasonably experienced, we trusted their judgment, and decided we didn't want to try it. Instead, we opted for the summer route which was reasonably packed down. Probably 1/2 a mile up from the summer/winter trail split, the boot pack wen..." — BryHong8 • Dec 9, 2017

"Climbed the winter route up the avalanche chute to the summit, which had beautiful views, and glissaded back down. Overall rating 7/10, classic climb on both winter and summer routes" — MountainQuest • Jun 17, 2017

"Great day hike with some good buds. No need for crampons but the axe came in handy. Shared the summit with a goat only. The glissade was phenomenal as well. Amazing peak for minimal effort. " — MatthewWinterberg • May 23, 2017

"Started from the lower trailhead with dry weather. About .5 miles after traveling past the upper trail junction we hit ice packed snow. It started snowing on us at 4500ft didn't stop. No visibility. On decent our tracks were already filled with snow. Used chains and ice axe. Last weekend we hiked nearby Mt.Rose..it was warm out tank tops and mosquitoes. A few short days later. Freezing weather and snow pounding. If you're going to the Olympics...pack everything!" — rebecca1 • Apr 19, 2014