Best Moderate Alpine Routes Near Seattle or Squamish, Early October

The Becky Route on Liberty Bell fits the bill. It's super mellow, and very aesthetic. 

If you can't make it up to Washington Pass, I second Darrington.  Also waaay less traffic than Washington Pass, I was out there in July and my partner and I had the place to ourselves.

FYI: Was up at liberty bell yesterday and it was very cold, at least one group climbed it, we didn't. Very little snow, definitely climbable with the right weather. Good Luck!

Thanks so much for the input, everyone.  We ended up doing the Becky Route last Thursday.  Trailhead at 6am, summit at 11:30, back to the car at 2:30pm.  

Weather was great, and we had an awesome experience.  The start was definitely cold, but I'm glad we were the first party there--rockfall in that chute is wicked.  The climbing itself was pretty chill compared to what we did in Squamish the two prior days.  But the summit here was out of this world.

nice!  you timed it pretty well, i think the 'weather' may have just landed for the season...

slim wrote:

nice!  you timed it pretty well, i think the 'weather' may have just landed for the season...

Indeed. Forecast is showing very cold temps for that area this weekend.