Sunrise hike of Mt Teneriffe, and side quest over to Dixie peak on 2.3.26.
We began our early morning mission from the Mt. Si parking lot, as I'm assuming they still lock the Teneriffe lot overnight.
ROAD was fine for regular cars, although the large potholes at the entrance to the parking lot stood guardian as always.
TRAIL: We started out on the Mt. Si trail, and then took the Talus Loop trail over to the Teneriffe Falls connector. This section of trail was pretty easy-going. We even saw a salamander on trail!
By Teneriffe Falls, we began our incline in earnest and headed up the calf-burning Kamikaze Trail. It was almost entirely snow-free until very close to the top, where there were some small, old patches of hard snow that we got through without spikes. Otherwise, there was actually a pretty decent bootpath to follow - I got minimally off-trail twice in the dark.
It was my first time seeing the Teneriffe summit block without snow! We watched the sun come up and the moon play with the clouds, quite a serene and lovely morning.
After our sunrise and snack break, we retraced our steps steeply down a short way to pick up the regular Teneriffe trail. There were longer stretches of compact snow on the trail, but we didn't need to use traction.
At the first road junction, we decided to take a side quest over to Dixie peak, which added (I think) around 1.5 miles roundtrip and approximately 500' more gain. There was an established bootpath all the way to the summit, and navigation was straightforward.
We retraced our steps from Dixie, kept on going down the Teneriffe trail and eventually met back up with the Talus Loop trail to get us back to the Mt. Si trail and our awaiting cars.
Solid workout and a Teneriffic way to start the day!
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