Snow Peak — Friday, May. 17, 2013

Eastern Washington > Okanogan Highlands/Kettle River Range

A little early for this hike. Was heading to the cabin for the weekend from the Kettle Crest Trail head on Sherman Pass and aborted due to conditions. The trail has not yet been maintained so there were many blow downs and large snow drifts. This being my first time there and not having any tracks to follow I kept losing the trail in the snow making progress extremely slow. This needs a couple more weeks of warm temperatures. The trail register had reports of people going in during the winter with snowshoes, but this being what I call "mud season" (time during snow melt where the trail is either mud or snow banks) made it very difficult. Will try again when I can get the cabin reserved.