Got up to Mount Si with Soaring Eagle on an overcast day. Forecast looked like minimal precipitation and it turned out just that. Light rain at TH but dry throughout the hike. No views though, socked in. In order to try something different, we did a loop going right off the Si trail onto the Talus Loop trail. Once we hit the Mt Teneriffe trail we went left uphill and took that until the Mt Si - Teneriffe Connector trail and went left until we arrived at the Haystack bench. We took a short break there and briefly discussed climbing the haystack, but it was all snow covered and probably sketchy in places so we opted not to. Within 10-15 mins the cold started to creep in, so we stayed layered up and made our way down the normal Si trail.
There was a surprising amount of newer snow up there, 6" deep on the connector trail going to Si. There were no tracks on this part. We noticed before the hike that all the surrounding peaks had a healthy amount of snow quite far down. Snow started probably around the 3000' level.
Stats: 8.7 miles, 3400' gain, 4:22 total time, 0:20 stopped time
Gear: Waterproof boots (TX4s), gaiters, poles. Brought spikes, but never used them.
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