Cold Therapy
It was still dark Saturday morning when Mark picked me up. The rain was coming down pretty good, but as we drove up I-90 to Snoqualmie Pass it quickly changed to snow. The freeway was still unplowed at 6:30 in the morning, so it took us a bit to get up to the Alpental parking lot as we had to dodge a few sliding trucks along the way. It was still snowing at the end of the road, and there were only a few cars at the main lot. We backed in across the street from the Snow Lake trailhead, and pulled our packs and snowshoes on. Dawn was approaching, and it was light enough to start without headlamps.
We were the first up the trail since the snow had begun a few days prior, but the trail was pretty well packed. Veering even a few inches to either side of the trail however, meant sinking up to your hips or worse in the amazing powder. I haven’t really been able to spend a lot of time in the snow over the last four years or so, but it was unlike anything I’d experienced here in Washington, at least at that level. We cruised along the trail for about thirty minutes before turning around and heading back to the car. The fresh snow was too tempting to leave untracked so we jumped off the trail down towards the end of the road and did some cross-country traversing, only stopping to pull ourselves out of the armpit-deep pits we’d end up in. It would have been nice to get to spend another hour or two up there – we didn’t make it as far as we’d wanted, but it was definitely not a bad way to start out a Saturday.
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