The picture above gives you some northern exposure (find out why this is a cheesy pun below). You can see to Canada, including Mt. Baker over my right shoulder and Glacier Peak over my left. The picture below is taken looking south, with Mt. Rainier beyond the lakes in the distance. 
This might have been the last trip of it's kind this summer, as fall has unofficially arrived in Seattle. It's crisp and rainy, and it's almost time to turn on the heat in the building.
One other bonus of this trip is that in order to get to the trailhead, you have to drive through Roslyn, WA, which as it turns out is where Northern Exposure (the tv show) was filmed. We ate at The Brick, a great bar in town and stopped by the local brewery. Worth the trip even if you can't do the climb.
