Sugarloafs

Date: June 14, 2010
Trails: Sugarloaf trail --> North Sugarloaf trail --> North Sugarloaf --> Middle Sugarloaf trail --> Middle Sugarloaf

To kick off the 2010 hiking season, we picked an easy hike to help get ourselves into shape. The Sugarloaf mountains are two small mountains located in Twin Mountain just off of route 302, near the Zealand campground. We had read that these mountains, despite their low elevation, had nice open summits, so we thought it would be a good hike to start off the summer.

This hike was relatively easy but still gave us enough of a workout to help get us into shape. The entire hike to both peaks is about 3.4 miles, and the summits offer awesome views of Twin Mountain and the surrounding ranges. This was not a very difficult hike, but it was perfect as a first hike of the year. We hit North Sugarloaf first, enjoyed the view a bit, then made our way over to Middle Sugarloaf. We enjoyed lunch on the top of Middle Sugarloaf, took in some views, then headed back down.

Overall the hike took us about 3 hours. It definitely provides one of the best views for the level of effort that we've experienced so far.