BCE Trail Challenge 2023
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Here we go again!
Following a successful run of the BCE Trail Challenge in 2022, the 2023 hikes were just posted, and I’m getting excited.
That’s the Backcountry Essentials Trail Challenge. Every year in late April / early May this excellent local outdoors shop publishes a list of ten hiking trails on Instagram, and if you do eight of them before the end of September, you get entered in a giveaway for some gear.
The (remaining) hikes for this year are:
- Sare’s Head Trail (Sharpe Peak)
- route plan
- wta.org page
- 1.9 miles, roundtrip
- Elevation gain: 473 feet
- Lake Ann Trail
- route plan
- wta.org page
- Trailhead is near Artist Point, inaccessible by car until July or so
- 8.2 miles
- Elevation gain: 2700 feet
- Cascade Pass
- route plan
- wta.org page
- May be currently inaccessible? (as of May 25)
- 6.6 miles roundtrip
- Elevation gain: 2600 feet
- Oyster Dome
- route plan
- wta.org page
- 3.8 miles roundtrip
- Elevation gain: 1291 feet
- Horseshoe Bend
- route plan
- wta.org page
- 3.5 miles roundtrip
- Elevation gain: 778 feet
- Waterfall Loop at Lookout Mountain Forest Preservation
- route plan
- wta.org page
- 2.4 miles roundtrip
- Elevation gain: 405 feet
- Lost Lake via Rock Trail
- route plan
- wta.org page
- Did this one by accident last year. It was tough!
- 2.4 miles roundtrip
- Elevation gain: 1200 feet
- Madrone Crest Loop
- route plan
- wta.org page
- 6.3 miles roundtrip
- Elevation gain: 1760 feet
- Excelsior Peak via Damfino Lakes Trail
- route plan
- wta.org page
- Above the current snow line (as of May 25)
- 5.1 miles roundtrip
- Elevation gain: 1680 feet
- Table Mountain Trail
- route plan
- wta.org page
- Trailhead is near Artist Point, inaccessible by car until July or so
- 2.8 miles roundtrip
- Elevation gain: 1060 feet
2021 hikes are scattered around my IG profile and 2022 hikes are here.