My Trip Info: Total Acsent: 6014ft (1834m)
Net: 5201ft (1586m)
Loss: 813ft (248m) Start Ele: 3313ft (1009m)
Max Ele: 8514ft (2595m)
Distance: 18.2mi (29.2km) Total Time: 9h 58m
Ascent: 5h 50m
Descent: 4h 1m
Time at Summit: 7m Start Time: 11:58
End Time: 21:56
Sunset: 19:22 Equipment Used:
Helmet
Poles
Headlamp
Water Filter Group Size: 2 Mountain Info: Cashmere Mountain (link):
Major Summits in Washington State: #28
High Summits in Washington State: #54
Prominent Summits in Washington State: N/A
Elevation: 8514ft (2595m)
Prom: 1656ft (505m)
Key Col: 6858ft (2090m) Cashmere Mountain - West Peak (link):
Elevation: 8279ft (2523m)
Prom: 279ft (85m)
Key Col: 8000ft (2438m) Point 7555 - Windy Pass North (link):
Elevation: 7555ft (2303m)
Prom: 75ft (23m)
Key Col: 7480ft (2280m)

All the mountains near where I live were getting rained out on the 13th. However, the Stuart area/the Enchantments was going to be rain free until nighttime. I’d already done Stuart and Dragontail, the two tallest peaks in this area. Cashmere was the last major summit (500m+ prom summit) I hadn’t done in the Enchantments, so the choice was obvious. We got to the trailhead just before noon and started the boring valley hike to Little Eightmile Lake. We took the turn up at Little Eightmile Lake to go up the ridge to Lake Caroline. The trail through this section was surprisingly overgrown for being such a highly-walked trail. We continued past Lake Caroline and filled up our water at Pioneer Creek that comes from Little Caroline Lake. After a bit more walking from Little Caroline Lake, we reached Windy Pass, where we had to leave the maintained trail. We took the trail along the ridge, which was very obvious and easy to follow. I walked up to Point 7555 (Windy Pass North), which was just a bit off trail. We made it to where the trail goes below the West Subpeak of Cashmere. I climbed up to the summit of the West Subpeak, which added about 280ft of ascent. I climbed up a little slab on the southwest side of the peak that was about class 4. There is an easier approach from the southwest side of the peak. The trail then went to a large boulder field that wasn’t hard to cross. After the boulder field, the trail comes back and goes up Cashmere. We took a very unconventional route up to the summit from this point. The standard route keeps going across the side to a class 3 chute; we went up much sooner than the standard route. The route we took was class 4 at minimum, but we took some side routes that were class 5. We even found a little flat wall that was 5.4 or so. After climbing for longer than we expected, we made it to the summit. The views were very cool with the clouds that day. It kept looking like a cloud was going to hit us, but it never did. We snapped some photos and went back down the same way we went up the summit block (except we skipped the 5.4 part). We took the meadow route down, which was way shorter than the ridge. However, I wouldn’t recommend going up this way since it was way less interesting, and there was a bit of bushwacking. Going down this way was great way to save some time.