Two night loop with lots of side trips to offshoot lake trails. Cathedral Pass still very snowy, but Deep Lake is fine, as is PCT to Waptus Lake and Trail Creek back to Cathedral trail. Some patches on the side trails but all doable! If you go counterclockwise as we did remember you do the horse ford over the Waptus River (it’s obvious footbridge is out from the other direction but not as clear this way). Bring you sandals for this crossing as well as the deeper and swifter crossing on Trail Creek, as well as a few other smaller streams running high now.
Trip Report
Cathedral Rock, Deep Lake, Spinola Creek & Trail Creek — Friday, Jul. 3, 2020
Snoqualmie Region > Salmon La Sac/Teanaway
Type of Hike
Multi-night backpackTrail Conditions
Obstacles on trail:Trees down across trail,
Difficult stream crossing(s),
Bridge out,
Muddy or wet trail.
Comments
Hi, I was thinking of day hiking to Deep Lake. Am I understanding your trip report that the trail to Deep Lake is snow free? I am not too familiar with geography listed. Need the sandals here too? Thank you for any help!
Posted by:
Connoquenessing on Jul 10, 2020 07:52 PM
Hi! What direction are you coming in from? From Cathedral Pass trail, you will not need sandals but you will hit snow at Cathedral Pass, but Deep Lake is snow free! If you come from Waptus Lake you will need sandals to cross the horse ford to Waptus, and again at a relatively benign little creek right before Deep Lake that nonetheless is too deep to walk across as of last week. Have a great trip!
Posted by:
Humperdink on Jul 10, 2020 08:41 PM