Yellow Hill

We drove out to the Teanaway Community Forest to hike up to Yellow Hill today, about 7.75 miles round trip with 2,800 ft of overall gain. We had the trail to ourselves. 

The first 1.3 miles is along a closed forest road.

Beautiful snowy covered trees in the morning sun

a little bit of fall color

The trail branches off from the road and starts going climbing steeply up.

The snow got deeper the higher up we hiked.

Views to the north from the first steep uphill

zoom of our view 

The trail drops about 300 ft before resuming uphill to Yellow Hill, seen in the distance.

The trail goes through the burn area into a healthy forest with large trees,

and small tress.

We were post holing in the snow about 10" deep as we reached 5,000 ft.

snow covered pine drops

We continued a short distance past Yellow Hill until we found a spot along the trail with some views. Great spot for a lunch break.

zoom of Koppen Mountain, where I hiked two weeks ago with no snow

zoom of Mount Stuart behind some clouds

Heading back down the trail 

views to the east