A great destination that is off the beaten "Sitka" path (which means you won't see anyone most of the time) but close to town (OK, everything is close to town) is Starrigavan Lakes.
After a long 12 mile drive almost to the firing range, you park and start up through an old logging clearcut. And focus on the word "up." Any time you go through an old logged off area, it's miserable anyway. Luckily, enough people go up that way that you don't have to crawl through the mud with devil's club scraping your back.
Then it gets steep. Keep going.
But when you break out of the trees, it's all worth it. This is one direction.
There's a lot of snow from last winter. Note that it is July 5.
Matt, Bob, and I climbed up on top, about 3000 feet in elevation - and yes, we started pretty much from sea level. Here they are, surveying the empire. And what an empire.
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