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If you have been up Mount Si more than once but not Bandera Mountain, you need to branch out. Bandera is one of the many I-90 corridor peaks and a simple hike to a great viewpoint. It is a local classic and should be explored before repeating the same locations twice!

Distance: 3 miles
Summit Elevation: 5,241 feet
Elevation Gain: 3,000 feet
Access: Nice gravel

Take I-90 east from North Bend to exit 45. Cross north under the freeway and head west 3.8 miles to the end at a parking lot and the Mason Lake trailhead/Ira Spring Trail.

Route:

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Access:

Take the Mason Lake/Ira Spring Trail to over 4500 feet to a signed spur trail that climbs steeply up to Bandera. It arrives on a false summit. Follow a boot path up and down a few bumps until you reach the highpoint.

Bandera from the east

Looking east from the summit of Bandera

Tusk O Granite

Granite

Kaleetan

Chair

Pratt

Looking down on Mason Lake from the false summit

View down I-90 from a low viewpoint

Kaleetan Peak

Kent and McClellan Butte

Looking south to Mount Rainier

View down I-90 from the summit

Mount Defiance

Hi Valley

Alpine Lakes Wilderness

Granite Mountain

Avalanche Path on the Ira Spring Trail

Mason Lake side trip