After another 100 yards, the trail becomes immediately steep. You will know you are in the right place if the incline is mellow and you go past a creek after 200 yards. It will be the first small trail that opens up on the left. Go around the gate and continue up the road for just less than a quarter mile. Across the street is a white, rusty, metal gate.Īcross the street from the parking area is a gravel road with a blue gate.
2.5 miles from the beginning of SE Middle Fork Road, there is an unmarked parking space on the left side of the road (right after gravel road starts). It doesn't matter whether you go left or right because both ways converge after a quarter mile. After a mile or so, you will come to a fork and the road will split. In 0.6 mile turn right onto SE Middle Fork Road (#56). What does the mail consist of you wonder? Well, go see for yourself.įrom Seattle take I-90 East past downtown North Bend to Exit 34. This strange tradition goes back to the 1950's. Mailbox Peak actually has a mailbox on top with a summit log and a changing assortment of mail in it. Although this hike is a real challenge, mountain folks retain they're sense of humor with an inside joke.
#MAILBOX PEAK FULL#
Often in Spring and early summer you will see mountaineers lugging full heavy weight packs up and down to condition for Mt.
The grade of the trail makes it one of the much more difficult hikes in the I-90 corridor. Mailbox Peak is not the sort of hike that is chosen for a fun, easy outing. I have heard of another time when they carried a full-length ladder to the summit and back. The last time I visited the summit, one of them had carried up a solid iron street corner fire hydrant and left it next to the mailbox. There is a fire-fighter training center located at the south east foot of Mailbox Peak and trainees often use the rigourous path for physical conditioning. Mailbox Peak, located between the Snoqualmie middle-fork and southfork drainages, is the North-West end of a range that includes Mount Defiance, Bandera Mountain, and Granite Mountain.
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