Snow Lake

My original post seems to have disappeared, fortunately I still have the photos from this hike up to Snow Lake in the Alpine Lakes Wilderness, starting from Alpental at Snoqualmie Pass. We hike up to the lake and around to the outlet, before returning. Overall our hike was about 7.5 miles round trip with 1,800 ft of overall gain. We saw a few waterfalls along the way.

Hoar frost covered part of the trail.

Another partially frozen waterfall

The nearby peaks going up the switchbacks were covered in clouds.

Lots of large icicles along the switchbacks and some frosty trees

Portions of the trail were very frozen, we wore our microspikes.

View of Snow Lake along the switchbacks going down to the lake

Part of the trail was snow covered boulders crossing this stream.

Views looking across Snow Lake as we continued along the trail

Very frozen trail heading down to the log bridge across the outlet

View next to the log bridge over the outlet, we decided to turn around here today.

icicles hanging off a log over the lake (zoom)

icicles hanging from tree branches at the edge of the lake (zoom)

some snowy peaks north of Snow Lake seen from the trail

View as seen from the snow covered boulder crossing as we returned

We took the side trail down to the lake shore.

There were some icicles hanging from large rocks at the edge of the lake.

Ice covering the edge of the lake

Swirl patterns in the ice over the creek

View from the boulders above the lake back up at the pass. We had our lunch break near here.

There were some obnoxious gray jays harassing us as we ate our lunch. Unfortunately, the cute pica was too fast for me to get a photo as it ran around the boulders near here.

Returning down the switchbacks,

the nearby peaks were cloud covered in a different way as seen on our way back.