Tiffany Mountain via Freezeout Ridge

Climb your way up to an 8200-foot summit once home to a fire lookout site through recovering burn brimming with wildflowers and later meadowy ridgelines offering mountain-filled skylines. Best of all, while the trailhead is a little rough to get to the high-elevation start makes Tiffany Mountain’s rugged slopes and lofty mountaintop fairly approachable to most hikers.

From the roadside trailhead, the Freezeout Ridge Trail #345 begins by slipping past a barbed-wire fence and entering a stand of derelict pine trees, bleached and charred from the 2006 Tripod fire. Below them the forest is hard at work rebuilding itself, and as always, the wildflowers are here in droves leading the way. Blooms line the trail, adding much needed color to the ashen colors dominating the burn zone. The well-trodden trail dodges boulders as it begins to climb up and over Freezeout Ridge’s exposed bedrock. Here, with no canopy to block your view, look upslope to find the barren summit of Tiffany Mountain waiting for your arrival.

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