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State: attempted Date: 2004/10/19 Trip type: scramble Elevation gain: approx. 2,250 feet (approx 685 meters) Total Time: 6 hours 27 minutes USGS Quad: Snoqualmie Pass In Areas: Middle Fork Snoqualmie Drainage, Alpine Lakes Wilderness Trip ReportI parked at Alpental and took trail 1013 (Snow Lake trail) to the pass just south of Snow Lake. At the pass I left the trail and followed a bootpath east on the ridge. I was planning to go to point 5,200+ on the ridge and then go north on another ridge to Avalanche Mountain. But at around 4,975' the ridge became very rocky and steep so I turned around. (Maybe I could have contoured below it, at the time the rainy and foggy conditions didn't let me see low enough to tell.) On to plan B. I returned to the trail at the pass and followed the trail to the low, broad ridge that runs east from Snow Lake to Avalanche Mountain. I pushed through tolerable amounts of huckleberry bushes on this ridge until I reached the base of Avalanche Mountain. Inexplicably, I turned around here and took the ridge back to Snow Lake. On the way home I took the Source Lake loop trail, it has great views of Bryant Peak, The Tooth, and friends. References
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Travel TimesTotal time on trail including breaks: 6 hours 27 minutesDriving there time: 1 hour 3 minutes Ascending time (not including breaks): 3 hours 22 minutes Descending time (not including breaks): 2 hours 26 minutes Driving back time: 57 minutes Altitudes below are readings from my altimeter so they are only approximate.
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![]() Impassable section of ridge east of trail
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