Squire Creek Pass via Eight-mile Trail — Monday, Apr. 20, 2015

North Cascades > Mountain Loop Highway

With the beautiful weather we couldn't resist hitting the trail today. This trail is in pretty rough shape. Lots of mud and roots to hike through and over. Numerous blow downs, and snow melt forming large muddy puddles. That being said the view from Squire Pass is spectacular, and well worth the rough trail. Seeing Three Fingers from the opposite side that I'm used to is cool. There are also several really neat creek crossings where you cross huge flat smooth rock with very shallow water running down over it. The snow that fell over the last couple of weeks is mostly gone and trail is easy to follow. The pass has bare rocks to sit on and after the sun today the pass might be completely snow free. We were the only hikers on the trail today. Round trip was just under four hours. Not counting our breaks at the top and Three O'clock Rock.