"I walked the ridge to the summit of "Tinklet" with my son. Tinklet is the rocky peak that overlooks Cottonwood Lake. To get there, find the Mirror Lake Trail trailhead at the end of 5 miles of FS road, NW from I-90 exit 62. After a mile, you intersect the PCT and head uphill another 0.7 miles to a ridge at the intersection with the Cold Creek Trail. From here, go NE off-trail along the ridge. Soon it opens up with nice views of nearby Silver and Tinkham Peaks. Continue up until you get to the steep, bare rocks. At this point, you can go around to the south and stay below the ridge. There are several places where you can go up between the sheer rocks to get to the rocky peak. However, beware that this is not the summit. It's beyond these rocks on another wooded peak, several hundred meters further east. You actually can stay directly on the ridge, with some modest rock-climbing where you first hit the tall rock. Once on the flat, bare first peak (which is a nice spot for lunch), there is a sheer 30 ft cliff, but if you look around to the left (north), there is an easy way through. Further east there is another sheer cliff, but again, there is a path around to the nort..." — markgarrett • Aug 14, 2017

"Even though it was a Friday, I left Seattle at 4:20 AM to ensure I wouldn’t have too much company on the trail. Hiked in along the PCT and found the cairns for the Silver Peak trail very easily at 1.7 miles. It’s pretty mild class 1 other than about 10 ft. of class 2. It was about 3 miles total to the top, which took 1 hr 40 minutes with copious stops for photos. After a break on the top of Silver, I descended to South Silver Peak, which is nothing more than a treed bump in the ridgeline. Continued on to Abiel (class 2), reaching the top at the 3 hr mark and 4.19 miles. From there I backtracked to South Silver and headed up the ridge to Tinkham. I got myself stuck on a ledge at one point when I thought I’d take a more exciting shortcut and then had to backtrack to the bootpack. All of these peaks had well-worn paths to the top, with no route-finding needed. Reached the top of Tinkham (class 2) at 4 hrs 22 minutes and 5.37 miles. The sheer north face is pretty impressive! There was a lot of Phyllodoce glanduliflora blooming at the top, plus the first Lloyd serotina I’ve ever seen (I found that while stuck on the cliff ledge). From there I took the pleasant ridge walk over to E..." — TynanRammGranberg • Jun 5, 2015