A loop connecting the eastern Necklace Valley trailhead to the West Foss Fork. An insane amount of boulder hopping and slow trails - definitely underestimated this one and feeling whooped, a sensation that I haven’t experienced in a while.

There really wasn’t much to look at for the first 7 miles of forest trails

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Finally getting into the alpine, looking NW at Locket Lake from La Bohn Gap

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Unnamed lake from the Hinman Glacier runoff

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At the summit of Hinman in five hours, looking at Mount Daniel. Smelled some smoke and a little hazy out which detracted from the day a bit.

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Pea Soup Lake from the runoff of Daniel’s Lynch Glacier

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I am still so unfamiliar with this area. Summit Chief, Chimney Rock, Overcoat, Lemahs, they all sound and blend together the same to me; I’m sure they’ll feel less that way when I finally visit them. An unexpected Rainier in the center.

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Bears Breast Mountain looks cool though

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So many of these going by today, and one flying in the valley

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Heading back down La Bohn Lake

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The classic view from Tank Lakes: Chimney Rock North, Chimney Rock, Overcoat

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Summit Chief massif

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On Iron Cap Mountain looking at Mount Hinman where I was four hours ago, looking gentle and unimposing. Mount Daniel to its right.

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A different angle of Bears Breast Mountain

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Iron Cap Lake

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Haze down the Middle Fork

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Angeline Lake

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Big Heart Lake

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It looked much more turquoise in person and very tempting to jump in and wash off

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The temptation lingered at Copper Lake

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Uh oh, past sunset now

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Notes

• This was probably ~33 miles and 10400 feet of vertical gain (although Garmin gave me 11000, the biggest discrepancy I’ve seen for me yet vs CalTopo) in a little under 15 hours. I really thought I’d be done in 12-14 hours including a leisurely soak in one of the final lakes lol. Ended up having to jog the last 2.5 miles in the darkness of the night.
• This route is basically goes high on the Foss Lakes Loop via Iron Cap per fkt page combined with Mount Hinman. Very impressed with the times on the loop itself given the ruggedness of the terrain in the alpine, and with the “trail” trails not being runnable at all.