White Pass - Pilot Ridge Loop — Friday, Jul. 3, 2020

We had planned to do the pilot ridge loop in 4 days for 4th of July weekend but by the time we got the white pass we found that the trail was fully snow covered and that there was no one who had started a boot path in said snow in that direction, everyone was going north on the PCT to summit glacier peak. We did not bring any snow equipment, gaiters, spikes or ice ax let alone enough insulation to camp on snow so the trip was abandoned by us after night one. Just a heads up, the snow levels this year are quite a big lower than 2019 in the North Cascades. On south facing slopes you are going to start hitting snow patches around 5600' and continuous full snow around 6000'.