rodman's GPS route

At Longmire, drive through the residential cabin area and cross the Nisqually River on this bridge.

After crossing the bridge drive 300 yards and park at the Community Building... then walk 200 yards back towards the bridge to find the Eagle Peak trailhead.

After hiking 3 miles on excellent trail, you will come out of the trees and get your first look at Chutla Peak.

After coming out of the trees, leave the maintained trail at the first switchback and follow boot path towards the Chutla/Wahpenayo saddle in the center of the photo.

It will be necessary to cross a boulder field to get over to the Chutla/Waypenayo saddle.

After crossing the boulder field, we will take an upwardly biased traverse and go underneath the cliffs on the left.

rodman has completed the traverse... now the gradient will steepen as he heads for the saddle.

Mt. Rainier from the Chutla/Wahpenayo saddle... Chutla Peak is on the left.

From the Chutla/Waypenayo saddle rodman and Denali Girl turn southeast and continue on good boot-path towards Wahpenayo Peak.

Still gaining elevation on the north side of the ridge leading to Wahpenayo Peak.

There wasn't any snow, but on the north side of Wahpenayo the ground was frozen and there was ice in places on the rock.

rodman is almost on the false summit of Wahpenayo Peak.

From Wahpenayo's false summit Denali Girl sees that it will take two more 50-75 foot downs and ups to get over to the true summit.

Denali Girl does some Class 3 scrambling as she gets close to the Wahpenayo summit.

A panorama shot from the Wahpenayo summit showing most of the Tatoosh Range... Chutla and Eagle look like one peak in the lower left of the photo... Lane is the pyramid shape in the right center... then Pinnacle, The Castle, and Plummer are clumped closely together... then Foss... and finally, Unicorn and Boundary on the far right.

A closeup shot of Pinnacle, The Castle, and Plummer from the Wahpenayo summit... Foss Peak is on the far right.

A closeup of Unicorn Peak and Boundary Peak from Wahpenayo.

Mt. Rainier from the Wahpenayo summit.

From the Wahpenayo summit Chutla and Eagle look like one peak... Iron Mtn and Copper Mtn are in the distance behind Chutla and Eagle.

A closeup of Mt. Adams to the south.

A closeup of Lane Peak from the Wahpenayo summit.

A closeup of Little Tahoma from the Wahpenayo summit.

After leaving Wahpenayo summit, rodman and Denali Girl head back towards the Chutla/Wahpenayo saddle.

Chutla Peak with the Eagle Peak summit showing just to the left of Chutla... Chutla is our next destination, but we won't be doing it from this side.

A look back at the Chutla/Wahpenayo saddle as we head for the west side of Chutla Peak.

Denali Girl stays close to Chutla's cliffs... we will recross the boulder field and then find a heather gully to get up to Chutla.

There is the heather gully in the right center of the photo.

rodman nears the ridge that will lead us to the Chutla summit.

Mt. Rainier from the Chutla Peak summit.

Lane, Pinnacle, Castle, Plummer, Unicorn, and Boundary from the Chutla summit.

From the Chutla summit we get a good look at Wahpenayo Peak... we used the ridge on the right to get to the false summit... then over to the true summit... Mt. Adams is in the distance.

rodman heads back down the heather gully...

and contours over towards the Eagle Peak Trail.

From the Eagle Peak Trail we look over to the shaded gully in the center of the photo that we used to reach the Chutla Peak summit.