Was hoping the weather would hold long enough in the morning for me to get a nice little loop on Mount Si without getting too wet.

Trail is in great shape.  A blowdown about half a mile in that is easy to work around.  Some fall colors still hanging in there despite the lateness of the season.  Jogged and power hiked to the first overlook, glancing at the menacing clouds to the east and south.  Made my way to the Snoqualmie Overlook to see more dark clouds.  Some small patches of snow in this area.

I dropped back down about a mile on the Mount Si trail, then made my way back up (wanted the extra gain).  At this point, I cut over on the Mount Si/Teneriffe connector trail. It had begun to hail/rain at this point.  Follwed the connector to the Mount Teneriffe trail and jogged down this as the rain really started to come down.

Descended to the Roaring Creek trail and cut back over to the Mount Si trail to get back to that trailhead.  Ten and a half miles with 5k of gain. Route link provided.

The rain might turn to snow on the upper slopes but it really didn't feel cold enough to me for it to stick around.

Parked in the Mt Si main parking lot but decided to head over to Teneriffe after seeing the crowds. Went up to the Talus Loop turn off (0.7 mi from TH), went right, and then followed Roaring Creek trail up to a small boot path that takes off on the right (unsigned) and connects in approx 1/3mile to the switchbacks below Kamikaze Falls on the Mt Teneriffe trail. Continued up past the falls and eventually was rewarded with amazing views at the summit. Mailbox Peak to the east, Mt Si to the west. Some people at the falls, but not many going up to the summit. Because it's hard. Really steep. Harder than Si and Mailbox. There is about a 1000 foot band right now where the mosquitos are voracious, from about 3000 ft to 4000 ft. Motivation to not stop moving upwards. From the summit I came down the steep trail to nearly the parking lot but turned right at the sign for Teneriffe Falls and connected back to the lower Roaring Creek trail and then the Talus Loop and then the last 0.7 miles back down the Mt Si trail to the parking lot. ~4000 ft elevation gain, 9.78 miles according to Gaia GPS. 

We hit the trail at 8 a.m. Saturday morning and were surprised that there were already several dozen cars in the Mount Teneriffe lot. The road in was fine headed to the lot but note that the way out is undergoing major construction and pretty rough for now.

We decided to piece together several smaller trails to construct our hike, and my husband took a picture of the map at the trailhead, which we found incredibly helpful—we didn’t find anything with this amount of detail online so sharing here in case it’s helpful to others.

We began on the Mount Teneriffe trail and then took the upper leg of the Talus Loop Trail toward Mount Si. This is clearly a less traveled path—we didn’t encounter a single person. It was a nice, uphill climb through the woods until we reached one large section of rock that provided a wide-open view of the surrounding area. We hadn’t expected the clearing to be quite so large or to offer such great views and ended up staying a while to take some pictures and enjoy the beautiful weather.

From there we met up with the Mount Si trail and headed back downhill until we reached the Roaring Creek trail, which we used to cut back over to the Mount Teneriffe trail, making a nice loop. We only encountered one person on the Roaring Creek trail--also clearly a less popular route.

Our overall hike ended up being just under 6 miles with 1,200-foot elevation gain and took us about three hours. Really nice option if you’re looking for a reasonable workout and great views, and prefer to avoid the traffic of the busier Mount Si and Mount Teneriffe trails.

I didn't go far so this was more of a walk - about 2 hours round trip. I started at the shinny, new Mount Teneriffe TH. I took a left at the first junction (instead of Kamikazee Falls to the right). Just after the 3rd bridge was the well-marked Roaring Creek junction which I again went left and shortly crossed a 4th bridge. I went for a while & turned around.

One thing about  trails from this TH is that they don't seem to get the wind like other parts of North Bend, including my house. Nice to get out of the wind.

Recent blowdown by the 2nd bridge was cleared. Yay! 

I hiked up to the Roaring Creek Bridge from the new Tenerrife Trailhead.  This is a great winter trail - nice sandy soil with very little mud.  Easy 2 mile or so round trip from the parking area.  The new trail joins the old trail, then a connector trail heads west from the Tenerrife Falls trail junctions.  Trail is in marvelous condition and well marked making it great for a short winter hike on a drizzly day.