<a data-flickr-embed="true" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/bravenboer/45458233522/in/album-72157674792394378" title="Glacier Peak from the White Chuck Basin"><img src="https://live.staticflickr.com/1938/45458233522_dc600628d8_b.jpg" alt="Glacier Peak from the White Chuck Basin"/></a> - [Flickr](https://www.flickr.com/photos/bravenboer/sets/72157674792394378/) - 31 miles, 9900ft gain - Area: [[Glacier Peak Wilderness]] I started hiking at 2:30am to make it to White Mountain for sunrise at 7am. [[North Fork Sauk Trail]] is very easy to walk in the dark with a headlamp. The switchbacks are mostly easy too, though the last long traverse to where the trail joins the PCT gets a bit more sketchy (narrow and exposed). At White Pass I started following the bootpath to White Mountain. Close to the White Mountain summit I ran into a mountain goat. It took about 4.5 hours to get to White Mountain (with a fairly heavy pack) The White Mountain sunrise was mostly spectacular to the NW behind me, but not on [[Glacier Peak]] because the basin gets not early sun. I think sunset would be better. I was considering continuing off-trail along the ridge (descending from White Mountain), but it looked a bit more tricky than I would enjoy, so I decided to go back down and follow the Foam Creek trail. I reached the White Chuck basin at 10:30am. The plan was now to go to Kololo. I used crampons on the White Chuck glacier. The glacier had more crevasses than I anticipated, but it was all exposed ice so I felt it was pretty safe. I would be a bit more concerned walking on the glacier with thin snow coverage. The standard route via the White Chuck Glacier leaves the glacier soon to follow rock and permanent snow fields. This was all pretty easy, though I did use crampons (very icy in spots where there was no fresh snow coverage). Once I headed to the ridge, I briefly wandered over the Suiattle Glacier, but I didn't feel like trying to get to the highest of the Kololo summits, so I went to the west summit. The summit has great views. I went back over the White Chuck Glacier via the same route and then decided to return via Red Pass. After leaving the basin there is a mostly obvious bootpath leading to the PCT. There has been some work on the Red Pass - White Pass traverse, but it's still a bit narrow and exposed. I reached the intersection with the North Fork Sauk trail just went it got dark. I was glad to be done with the traverse before dark. I was back at the car at 10:30pm. The Flickr link below has a GPS track that documents the route except the section to Kololo. It's all on established trails or bootpaths. I saw 3 people during the day: one [[Glacier Peak]] climber with a bivy at White Pass (sorry to wake you up), a trailrunner in the basin heading to Glacier Peak and a backpacker just beyond Red Pass.