We drove up the Salmon La Sac Road to hike/snowshoe up Hex Mountain and see how far we would get. It was 15F when we started and when we reached the ledge area the wind bursts were strong enough that I didn't feel like continuing up. We donned our snowshoes when we were going up a very steep slope with ice under the snow layer. We were the first ones up and broke trail. We didn't see other hikers until we were going back down the trail. We hiked about 5.2 mile round trip with 1,650 ft of gain. Great day!
We saw a herd of elk when driving up the Salmon La Sac road this morning.
Fresh snow covering up the previous tracks
Some peekaboo views on the closed road portion.
lovely snowy pine trees
View towards Cle Elum Lake, before the start of the "summer" trailhead
We donned our snowshoes about here.
Looking towards Hex Mountain
View towards the west
View to the north, Davis Peak in the middle
zoom of Mt Daniel
Hiking back down along the ledge
Another view of Cle Elum Lake below
We drove up the Salmon La Sac Road to hike/snowshoe up Hex Mountain and see how far we would get. It was 15F when we started and when we reached the ledge area the wind bursts were strong enough that I didn't feel like continuing up. We donned our snowshoes when we were going up a very steep slope with ice under the snow layer. We were the first ones up and broke trail. We didn't see other hikers until we were going back down the trail. We hiked about 5.2 mile round trip with 1,650 ft of gain. Great day!
We saw a herd of elk when driving up the Salmon La Sac road this morning.
Fresh snow covering up the previous tracks
Some peekaboo views on the closed road portion.
lovely snowy pine trees
View towards Cle Elum Lake, before the start of the "summer" trailhead
We donned our snowshoes about here.
Looking towards Hex Mountain
View towards the west
View to the north, Davis Peak in the middle
zoom of Mt Daniel
Hiking back down along the ledge
Another view of Cle Elum Lake below
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