Granite Mountain, Granite Mountain - Winter — Saturday, Feb. 24, 2001

Snoqualmie Region > Snoqualmie Pass

Sunday was a really nice day for a hike. The trail starts off with patchy snow until the Granite Mt Trail starts. I had a nice hike up the left side of the avalanche shoot. Made it up to the ridge. Stopped there because of Wind and Ice. I was the unfortunate witness to two inconsiderate yahoo's and their dog. They climbed very close to the top of the mountain with their dog. They then slid all the way down the shoot until just above the trail. Well, the dog only followed them down a couple hundred feet. The dog started barking and ran back up the ridge and barked some more. It kept doing this for 15 minutes! The poor dog didn't know what to do. During this time the owner was yelling as loud as he could for the dog. Like the rest of us on the mountain needed to hear him. He just stood there in the avalanche shoot and yelled as loud as he could until he realized he had to go back up. I reached his buddy and let him know what I thought. His response was ""We have best vertical here in Washington"" ""He's teaching me, I don't tell him nothin"" ""Were going to do McKinley"" The whole thing kind of wrecked my hike.