Rainy Lake (Middle Fork)
Jun 22, 2005
- Type of Outing
- Day hike
- Read More in our Hiking Guide
- Hike: Rainy Lake
- Region: Snoqualmie Pass -- North Bend Area
- Agency: Mt. Baker - Snoqualmie National Forest - Snoqualmie District
- Avg Rating: 3.67
- Be Aware Of
- Blowdowns
- Mudholes
We stumbled on this trail last year, but only made it half way to the lake (not knowing there was a lake but suspecting). We came back on the almost longest day of the year to bag it on our usual Wednesday night hike. We crossed the gateway bridge at 5:00pm and were engaged in a world of drizzle, mud, rocks, blowdowns and fog until Midnight.
We were going to turn around at 8:00 but we went past that and at 8:15 there was only 300' of altitude left. Well, that last 300' included an extra 200' to the top of the bowl the lake is buried in. We made it to the lake at 9:00. Very pretty, but foggy so we didn't see much of the surroundings. We went down by flashlight made it out safe but exhausted. Several blowdowns on the trail. One had been cut most of the way through. Ran out of gas??
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