"Trip up to the Kacheese Ridge area to summit Thorp Mountain and Hard Know, both Home Court 100 Peaks. Added Hard Cheese and Not Knox along the way. Beautiful fall colors and perfect weather - awesome ridge hike with amazing views of so much of the Alpine Lakes Wilderness." — markhadland • Oct 8, 2020

"Great hike with the kids into a blustery cloud. A few snow sections en route to the final climb but mostly snow-free last 1000 vert. Also took the spur to Thorp Lake and discovered a tent village. Once I got back had to look at Google Earth to see what the views would've been. Look for similar 3D map view in peakery soon!" — scott • Jun 27, 2020

"Beautiful views over Kachess Lake, Mt. Rainier, and the highest peaks of the Central Washington Cascades from this lofty lookout. Overall rating 7/10, great summit hike if in the area" — MountainQuest • Aug 8, 2019

"We hiked in Friday night from the unofficial trail at the end of FR 4312 and promptly lost the main trail among the maze of bootpaths along the way. We ran out of light before we could find Thorp lake, so we set up camp in the meadow just below it. After breakfast at the lake we loaded up our gear and climbed to the lookout tower atop Thorp Mountain.The sky was mostly clear except for some clouds sitting on the surface of the cascadde crest beyond Alta and Lemah mountains. Shortly after arriving at the summit we were circled by a red biplane that seemed to be on a scenic flight. The origional plan was to visit all three French Cabin Peaks and loop back to the car, but between the heat and cloudless skies and the uncertainty of finding a water source along the way, we we concerned that the 4 liters we could carry wouldn't be enough. We instead took a northern loop past Little Joe Lake, hoping to summit Red Mountain on the other side before heading home. The Green Trails map (Kachess Lake # 208) accuratley describes the Red Mountain trail #1330 as "Hard to Follow". Keep a close eye on the trail and be prepared to find it when it disappears, as it does often. For safety sak..." — Jeb • Jul 28, 2012

"We took an unofficial trail we found at the end of the forest road and ended up camping in a meadow just below thorp lake, which was our intended destination. A pair of mountain goats were perched on the rocks slowly scaling the side of a peak above us. In the morning we headed up to the lake to eat breakfast and stock up on water. Our next destination was the lookout at the summit of thorp mountain. The view from the top was rewarding. From there we decided to take a trail marked as hard to follow according to the green trails map and visit little joe lake. Hard to follow was an accurate description. After spending some time at the lake we took a trail back to the forest road." — Al-Rashid • Jul 28, 2012