Mirror and Cottonwood Lakes

Beautiful fall day, we choose to take a quick hike at Snoqualmie Pass to Mirror and Cottonwood Lakes. This is listed as a 2.2 mile roundtrip hike with 870 ft of gain. We found the last 0.5 mile of FR 5480 to rough to drive up. And we added the additional 0.3 miles to the far end of Mirror Lake, making our trip 3.8 miles. Nice quick hike!

 About 1 mile from where we parked we found the short spur trail to Cottonwood lake













Wide angle shot of Cottonwood lake

 Some fall colors along the hillside

 First view of Mirror Lake 0.6 miles up the trail from Cottonwood Lake
















some fall color at Mirror Lake

Pano view of Mirror Lake 0.3 miles further going along the PCT. Silver Peak in the distance