Gold Creek Trail

We drove out to Hyak on the east side of Snoqualmie Pass to hike
/snowshoe part way of the Gold Creek Trail, hiking around Gold Creek Pond and Heli Pond on the way. He hiked about 6 miles with 37 ft of elevation gain.
The road to Gold Creek Pond was still open but very icy, so we decided to park at the SnoPark area and walk up the road.
View of Gold Creek below Gold Creek Pond

Gold Creek Pond

views around Gold Creek Pond

Heli Pond













views around Heli Pond

a side trail on the way around Heli Pond

breif glimpse of Rampart Ridge to the east from Heli Pond

We continued up the Gold Creek Trail, we put on our snowshoes and would probably been ok without them today.
View of Gold Creek

There was only a couple inches of snow and the avalanche level was low today, so we were comfortable hiking through the avalanche area.

some icicles along the trail

Bridge across a creek













We stopped where the trail has access to Gold Creek Pond for our lunch break and turned around here.

returning through the avalanche area













brief glimpse of Kendall Peaks from along the trail