Koppen Mountain, Way Creek, Jungle Creek & Johnson Creek - Medra Pass — Saturday, Jun. 29, 2002

Snoqualmie Region > Salmon La Sac/Teanaway

We did this 10.7 mile loop on the west side of the Teanaway valley on a pleasant, cool and partly overcast Sunday and never saw anyone else. The hike begins from Beverly Creek on the Johnson-Medra trail and follows the creek for about 2-1/2 miles, then climbs at a rate of 1,000 ft/mile for a mile and a half to Medra Pass. Very nice and varied views there, including west into the Middle Fork Teanaway country and east towards Mt. Stuart/Ingalls. Continued south following trail 1225, the Koppen Mtn trail. I was surprised to read another very recent report of this trail as it looked like nobody else had been on it this year! It took a small amount of route finding, the trail pretty much disappears in places or just spreads out into a series of game trails but as long as you are careful to stay on the ridges and follow the right ridge lines (it cuts over one ridge about 1/2 down) it's fine. If you were doing this loop the other way it might be easy to accidentally bear left to Malcolm Peak since it looks like a trail in that direction may get more use. Once we hooked up with the Way Creek and Jungle Creek trail it was obvious these trails get more use and someone had recently cut a lot of deadfall, thanks. Some signs of motorcycles but utter solitude the whole way. A very nice loop.