Time: 5 hrs. Seattle, WA: Pratt Lake Saddle. We started at 8:45am at the Fisher Creek/Tonga Ridge trailhead near the very end of Road 6830. Fisher Lake via Tonga Ridge Total Distance: 7 km. The ridge walk was really nice with lots of great views. Tonga Ridge starts high and stays high--it also starts great, and stays great. I want to do. Seattle, WA: Fisher Lake via Tonga Ridge. It is an easy hike for the family, has great views and, best of all, has a bumper huckleberry crop in the fall. Type: out-and-back. print. Total Distance: 5.5 miles Total Ascent: 1200ft Highest Point: 5480ft The way down to the upper Ptarmigan lake went slower than I wanted it to. To get the rest of the dirt click on jeffkatzer.wordpress.com I encountered several patches of firm snow above 5000 feet, mostly on the North side of Tonga Ridge. Fisher lake off stevens pass not super crowded and there's a trail right to it but you still would want a map Washington trails association website would have more info. Town: Skykomish, WA. 89 views. The road is … We followed it until taking a small slightly hard to find path down to Fisher Lake. From the lower lake, I can contour to the right with a little elevation gain and make my way to Fisher Lake. Tonga Ridge Trail #1058 to Mount Sawyer Bursting with wildflowers in the spring and huckleberries in the late summer, this lovely ridgeline hike offers expansive views all year long. A volcanic crater lake is a lake in a crater that was formed from explosive activity or collapse during a volcanic eruption.. Hikers are rare but solitude isn't on this 9-mile ridgeline hike to a secluded lakeside campsite in the Alpine Lakes Wilderness. With a slightly late start, we headed up to the Tonga Ridge trail head. Martin Bravenboer By: Martin Bravenboer. It starts in second-growth forest but meadows begin after one mile or so and continue for much of the trail. It is a very long 17 miles from the junction with Road 68. add review. Here is a little highlight reel from my motorbike ride up the Tonga Ridge Trail. Stars: Activities: hike Seasons: fall From: clacaze. Wet area on the trail to Fisher Lake had a nice variety of life with frogs, many flowers, and frighting pools of mosquito larvae by Martin Bravenboer ... (there is a campsite at the second lake, 4,559 feet). From Fisher it is a bit of a bushwhack over to Lower Ptarmagin. Fisher Lake was nice, but we forded on to our destination. Trail 1058 was well kept to the Fisher Lake/Deception Creek Junction. Lakes in calderas fill large craters formed by the collapse of a volcano during an eruption. Lakes in maars fill medium-sized craters where an eruption deposited debris around a vent.. Crater lakes form as the created depression, within the crater rim, is filled by water. I did this. The trail to Fisher Lake shows as a dotted line on the latest revision of the Green Trails map (2002). 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