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Getting There

From I-5, 67 miles north of Vancouver, Washington, take Exit 68 and travel 85 miles east on US 12 to White Pass. Continue east another 2.1 miles, then turn left into the signed Dog Lake Campground. The unpaved campground loop road passes the signed trailhead on the right after 0.1 mile.

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Hiking It

The trail starts in a relatively open midelevation forest of mixed conifers with plenty of huckleberries, fireweed, grouse whortleberries, and numerous other low-growing flowers and shrubs scattered about on the forest floor. After just 0.1 mile of uphill hiking, you reach a fork at the start of the loop.

Bear right onto the Cramer Lake Trail and follow this wide, horse-pounded path as it traces a gentle course 1.2 miles to a camp immediately before a bridgeless crossing of North Fork Clear Creek. There is usually a log you can scoot across here (you might have to go upstream a bit to find one that’s comfortable), but if that is missing, the creek crossing is generally an easy calf-deep ford. (Make sure you familiarize yourself with the proper way to safely ford a creek.)