Trip Report
East Fork Foss - Necklace Valley — Saturday, Jan. 28, 2017
Central Cascades > Stevens Pass - West
Attempted Tank Lakes in a day but didn't make it. Started at 5pm Friday evening and hiked through the night about 8 miles to a spot under point 5190. 8 miles should have taken me further than this, but routefinding at night in the untouched snow added almost an extra mile. Also, had to park about 1.5 miles from the valley trailhead due to icy roads when my tire chains were being uncooperative. Camped, had a nice 4 hour nap followed by a delicious cup of hot chocolate and made my way back to the car.
The route is rather uneventful and nearly flat even though I did accumulate over 3100' elevation gain over about 15 miles of total hiking. Snow alternates between icy crust and soft wet snow, making time consuming switches between snowshoes and traction/crampons a necessity. I would rather do this in summer, but now that I've been turned away once, I only feel the urge to make it to Tank Lakes even stronger.
Comments
seltaire on East Fork Foss - Necklace Valley
amazing
Posted by:
pupptea on Feb 12, 2017 11:06 PM
alexlim on East Fork Foss - Necklace Valley
Why did you want to go in at night? Doesn't look like you made it anywhere close to Tank, next time ;)
Posted by:
alexlim on Feb 18, 2017 10:15 PM
hikesalone on East Fork Foss - Necklace Valley
It was a time restriction. Work related thing I had to be at the next night. And I know. I still had 3 or 4 miles to tank. But it would've been more doable if I could have driven the road to the TH
Posted by:
BradGeyer on Feb 18, 2017 11:07 PM