Route: Quartz Mountain / Training Day (Middle fork Snoqualmie)

Mountain Information:

• Name: Quartz Mountain
• Region:  Central Cascades (Middle fork Snoqualmie)
• Summit Elevation: 4641 ft / 1415 m
• SummitPost Link: http://www.summitpost.org/mountain/655314
• Peakbagger Link: http://www.peakbagger.com/peak.aspx?pid=2073
• WTA Link:  http://www.wta.org/go-hiking/hikes/quartz-mountain

Driving Directions:

• Trailhead:  No offical Trailhead. Park at the beginning of the CCC trail
• Co-ordinates: 47°32'14", -121°34'32"

• Address: NF-5600, North Bend, WA 98045

• Elevation:   about 1000ft
• Pass:  Northwest Forest Pass
• Directions: From Interstate 90 take Exit 34, turn left under the freeway, pass Seattle East Auto Truck Plaza, turn right on Middle Fork Road, and drive about 9 miles and park off to the road just after a rocky outcropping. Anywhere in the next mile is fine as well. If you hit the Middle Fork Trailhead, you went too far. Another starting point is at Road 120, at 9.8 miles. Drive in on this road as far as you can, then walk it, eventually hitting the old CCC road (now trail).

Route Information: Training Day

• Gain: 3850ft
• Round Trip:  6.8 miles
• Difficulty:Grade III+, 5.10a, 1,300 feet
• Season: Summer
• Source: Snoqualmie Rock
• Existing tracks: No gpx file,  but there is a snow scramble gully route on 03/19/10 with a track on this gulley.
• Caltopo Route:  https://caltopo.com/m/H2GJ 

Misc 

• Videos: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vSoEO69rxq4
•  Cascade Climber report on 07/14/2018
• Scramble route: http://caltopo.com/m/M80T
• Gears:  Gear Notes: 22 draws, and a light rack up to #3 from this report.