Cathedral Rock, Peggy's Pond & Mount Daniel — Saturday, Jun. 4, 2016

Snoqualmie Region > Salmon La Sac/Teanaway

The road in was pretty bumpy, the creek was running too high for sedans, but posed no problems for my buddy's Suburban. Parts of the road were flooded as well, but were no problem for high clearance vehicles. Camped at the trailhead and set out early on Saturday morning for Peggy's Pond. Very little snow until about 4,500 feet, but the warm temps meant a lot of a lot of runoff. The ground was pretty muddy in places and the larger stream crossing were running high. Squaw Lake is ice free and a few of the campsites were mostly snow free, but the stream crossings after the lake were quite difficult and all were much higher on Sunday when we made our return trip. Probably a dozen fallen trees, many of which made for slow going with a full pack of gear. Constant snow from just above Squaw Lake and along the ridge leading up to Cathedral Rock. Mix of snow and bare ground along the trail to Peggy's Pond. Most of the snow patches won't last long. Deep Lake was at least half melted out. Found a dry campsite in the trees at Peggy's Pond, but pretty much everything else was still covered in snow. The pond itself was melted enough to collect water, but will still take a while before it's icy free. Beautiful sunset, only a few bugs but they weren't really biting. On Sunday we were up at 2am to beat the heat. Left camp just after 3am, crossed the Daniel Glacier without any problems. Made it up to the west summit at 7:30am. The snow was a bit slushy, but held fine for us.