Route: Hex Mountain (Central Cascades)

Mountain Information:

• Name: Hex Mountain
• Region:  Central Cascades
• Summit Elevation: 5034 ft / 1534 m
• SummitPost Link: http://www.summitpost.org/mountain/152440
• Peakbagger Link: http://www.peakbagger.com/peak.aspx?pid=21479
• WTA Link: http://www.wta.org/go-hiking/hikes/hex-mountain

Driving Directions:

• Trailhead:  Snoqualmie Region -- Salmon La Sac/Teanaway Hex Mountain (#1343)  Okanogan-Wenatchee National Forest, Cle Elum Ranger District

• Co-ordinates: 47.2850, -121.0914
• Address:  Snoqualmie Region -- Salmon La Sac/Teanaway
• Elevation: 2400ft 
• Pass: Northwest Forest Pass
• Directions: I-90 - State Highway 903/Salmon La Sac Road
• More direction: 
• 1. Firehouse at 11.2 miles from roundabout where Bullfrog Rd meets 903 and you take 903 north / Salmon La Sac rd. The firehouse will be on your right in the direction you are going (North) and just before a small brown sign saying "Newport Creek". 
• 2. On the left side of the road across from the firehouse is the single car parking. 
• 3. (Note: I had trouble with waypoints so it looks like there are two on top of each other here). To get to the start of FS 116 (the main logging road), walk North on Salmon La Sac road about 200 ft to the first maintained / plowed road going off to the right. It is the second road on the right after the Newport Creek sign and has big orange signs saying "Logging Trucks Only". 
• 4. Location of the old road grader with the "Hey Boys" sign scrawled into it. As previous posters mentioned, you actually need to stay on the main logging road here. 
• 5. Turnoff to unmaintained, old logging road after a small turnout with single pine tree. 
• 6. Turnoff to the summer trail at sign "Hex Mountain Trail 1343". 
• Weather forecast
• Mountain Forecast
• National Weather Service
• Avalanche danger forecast
• Northwest Avalanche Center
  

Route Information: (Choose the easiest one or the winter route if there are multiple routes)

• Gain: 2600 ft
• Round Trip:  7 miles
• Difficulty: Hiking, snowshoeing
• Season: All seasons
• Source: http://www.summitpost.org/hex-mountain/152440
• Existing tracks: http://www.peakbagger.com/climber/GPXFile.aspx?aid=488603&sep=1
• Related Trip Report: http://www.peakbagger.com/climber/ascent.aspx?aid=488603

• Caltopo Route: http://caltop/m/T1U2

Misc 

• Videos: 
• Hex Mountain Summit 
• Hex Mountain Snowshoeing
• Other Links: 
• WTA report 2017-01-22
• WTA report 2017-01-15
• Outdoor Project report
• hikingwithmybrother report
• Notes: 
• Need cars suitable to wintery road conditions; chains may be required. 
• Trail difficult/impossible to navigate
• Gears/tracking devices required
• possibles trips: Round trip or loop. See my Caltopo map

• Topo maps: Caltopo