Rock Creek, Snow Lake & Middle Fork Snoqualmie River — Saturday, May. 31, 2003

Snoqualmie Region > North Bend Area

Snow Lake Via Middle Fork Snoqualmie Dingford Creek Trailhead. This is one of my favorite early season hikes. I rarely see anybody on this trail. The last ½ mile of trail is solid snow from about the second to last Talus field crossing on. The lake basin is still full, and the lake is still frozen/shushed over. Good news – The Middle Fork road was re-graded up to the Taylor River about 3 weeks ago. So, the only bad road is the last 6 miles (just as ugly as ever). The Middle Fork trail is in good shape, and free of blow downs. Once you leave the Middle Fork trail and start up and into Snow Lake (rock creek trail?), the trail stays in fair shape. It is a seldom-used trail that can be rocky, covered with moss, and other plants in places. Somebody brushed the 3 really bad switchbacks last year, and removed the blow downs (thank you). New for this year are more blow downs. There are 3 fairly near each other at roughly the 5 to 6 mile mark, and one small one at about 4 miles. None are hard to get around. Happy trails - KN