Source Lake - Winter Route — Saturday, Jan. 28, 2017

Snoqualmie Region > Snoqualmie Pass

This is a very popular snowshoe and cross country ski area. This area is very beautiful with deep snow. Source Lake is small and unremarkable but the snow covered trees are great. We did the trip as a loop starting at the last parking area at Alpental (west side of valley) and returning on the summer trail route (east side). It was fun for me to see the route that goes up on the west side of the creek since this is not easily accessable during the summer. You should only come here when the Avalanche danger is Moderate or less. There are lots of avalanche gullies coming into the valley, especially on the trail on the east side of the valley (summer trail). Northwest Avalanche center website: https://www.nwac.us/ We saw a young man near source lake wearing mesh tennis shoes! Not a good idea. If you ever got stuck in a snow storm with tennis shoes then it would be very hard to get out. I recommend snowshoes for this one. Much of the journey could be done with microspikes. Today was foggy so we didn't feel it was worth it to try to make it to Snow Lake. 3.5 mi RT and 900 ft elevation gain

More Information on this Trip Report

• http://www.alltrails.com/explore/recording/source-lake-snowshoe--2