Mt. Bailey, Standard

Activity Notes

Preference for recent BCEP graduates, especially 2024's Teams 4, 6, and 14. This is a good long  (9.6-mile round trip) and vigorous hike (3150' elevation gain) to the summit of 8,363' Mt. Bailey, an old volcano which is the 12th highest distinct mountain in the Oregon Cascades and it is precisley the same elevation at Washington's Mount St. Helens! A car-to-car climb, we will get an early start -- 6:30 am -- to take advantage of the coolness of the morning and to avoid the thunderstorms that often occur on a summer's afternoon there. We will leave from the Mt. Bailey Trailhead parking area at an elevation of about 5,200', just beyond the s.w. corner of Diamond Lake. You'll have great views of glacially carved Diamond Lake, Mt. Thielsen, Howlock Mountain, Diamond Peak, Mt. McLoughlin, Mt. Scott, Mt. Shasta, the peaks around the rim of Crater Lake, and all the way to the Three Sisters, weather permitting.