Having decided to do our initial Seward Range loop without Seymour Mountain, we knew that we would need to take the long walk out once again to grab it separately. Many people do their Seward Range trips as overnights, splitting the range over two days, or tackling them all, sleeping out in the wilds and packing out in the morning. I’m sure it’s possible to do it all in one day and make it out alive, but our crew isn’t built like that.

All things considered, I’m glad we broke the range up, and I would probably recommend it to other aspiring 46ers, especially since Seymour has the best views of the entire range, hands down. Much like Seward, this one has a fairly steep final mile, with plenty of scrambles that had us crawling and grabbing at roots. Grabbing all 4 of these on a single trip would be quite challenging. The good news for those who are going out for a second time to grab this one is that Seymour is by far the best in terms of views and lookouts.

• As stated on our Seward Post, there is a decent sized parking lot here, but it’s almost always full over-nighters. The good news that you can overflow on the dirt road without any issues.
• In terms of wet and muddy conditions, this one is on par with the rest of the range, and will almost certainly be worse depending on the most recent rainfall, we’d recommend dry conditions.
• The Blueberry Trail is a very long, and mostly flat, out and back (I would say 6+ miles.) Tag that onto the steep ascent and you’re looking at a pretty tough day. It took our crew about 8.5 Hours including breaks and whatnot.