Cathedral Rock, Peggy's Pond — Thursday, Mar. 31, 2016

Snoqualmie Region > Salmon La Sac/Teanaway

This morning I figured I'd take advantage of our great recent weather and the paucity of snow below 4,000 ft west of the cascades and Hike to Cathedral Rock or even Peggy's Pond to scout the trail prior to a Mt Daniel climb in May/June. Well, as you can see from the pictures, I really underestimated the nice weather this week--the road is perfect clear and dry all the way to the end of the pavement, but beyond that (and for presumably about 13 miles) closed with at least a foot of snow. IIRC the sign said no wheeled vehicles, snow mobiles only. The checkbox "trail warnings" above are filled in only because I could not publish this without them. I have no idea what the trail is like--I could get no closer than 13 miles. WTA folks, you should have a default that if the "road closed" box is checked, you can pub a report without any other boxes.... (So I climbed Granite Mountain on the way home as a consolation prize. Life could be worse.)