Mary's Peak 20 June 2014

Mary's Peak is another one of those mountain tops I had wanted to get to in awhile.  It is the highest peak in the Coast Range at 4087ft.  We made an 8.1 mile loop out of the trails by starting at Connor's Camp, heading up on the East Ridge Trail, crossing the road to the Meadow Edge Trail and over to the Summit Trail.  After lunch and gorgeous views with tons of butterflies, we headed around the Meadow Edge Loop then down the road a bit to the parking lot at Observation point.  Then we caught the North Ridge Trail and turned back when we connected to the Tie Trail which led us right back to the East Ridge Trail.  Beautiful day in God's lovely creation!

Mary's Peak trail to peak
Return to car from Mary's Peak

Douglas fir forest with salal, oregon grape and oxalis

blooming salal

iris

star Solomon seal

looking east

a very constrasty burned section

west

west

meadows