Squire Creek Pass via Eight-mile Trail — Sunday, May. 7, 2017

North Cascades > Mountain Loop Highway

What a beautiful trail on a beautiful day! Well, what we were able to complete of it. The drive up was pretty easy, once you hit the gravel road, keep to the left of all forks that you come across. Once the one trail, you will notice it is unmaintained which made it difficult to follow at some points but if you look a head and around you will see where the trail continues on. About a mile up you will hit the big rock face, climbers where there while we were, you will a patch of snow you must pass. We struggled a minute to figure out the safest way to cross but were able to make it to the other side. The clearing here is a great spot to take a breather from the steep climb and look out on the mountains all around. As you continue on the, the trail gets steeper and harder to navigate as snow became more abundant along the way. We were able to cross some small patches but were falling through a lot. We finally hit a point, less than 2 miles up, that was uncross-able due to snow and lost trail. We didn't want to try to cross due to the warm weather and snow falling through and not having any idea where the trail went from there we decided to turn around. Although we didn't make it to the top, it was a fun adventure and great views for what we did manage to climb. Definitely coming back when the snow has a chance to melt off some more!