Mount Rose — Saturday, Apr. 17, 1999

Olympic Peninsula > Hood Canal

Snow starts at 2100' but was solid enough to walk on without snowshoes until we hit the ridge at 3500'+. There is still 6+ feet of snow on top which means the view is much better than in the summer, since you are lifted above many of the trees which otherwise hide Mt.s Ellinor and Washington. The trail is impossible to follow under the snow. We were lucky. We followed the tracks of another party who, it turns out, knew where they were going. One nice feature of this trail is you can reach the summit without much avalanche danger.