Best Larch Hikes for 2026

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All right, large hikes.

So this is right about the time, varies a little bit year to year, but alpine large hikes, which are the ones that come first, this is like early October is like primetime, right, sometimes late September.

When we get down to western larches that are a little bit lower in elevation, a little further south and east in Washington, those are better for like mid to late October.

So for today, I want to talk about a few different ones that relate to that, in particular for 2026.

And just a reminder too, we've talked about this in other episodes about larches.

You may know this already, but one of the reasons that they're so special is they're a deciduous conifer.

So they are not evergreen, but they have cones like many evergreen trees do.

And they're green in the summer and then they turn bright golden and then they lose their leaves or not their leaves, their needles.

And then they get new needles in the spring.