Where to cache shoes on Glacier Peak approach?

[dryad]

Here's a silly trivial question. I'm planning on going up Glacier Peak (Sitkum Glacier) this weekend and since it has a sizeable trail approach I was planning on wearing tennies and then switching to boots later on. What would be a good place to do the switch and cache the tennies on the way up? At Kennedy Hot Springs? Farther up? Is there a place farther up that's obvious enough that I won't walk right by my stash on the way down? Thank you!

[JoshK]

If you are going both up and down the sitkum, take your tennis shoes all the way to boulder basin. It was pretty much snow free the entire way there a month ago, so it certainly is now. You'll be glad for the tennis shoes.

 

If you are going up by another route (which I would *highly* recommend; the sitkum is very boring to ascend), then I would cache your shoes at kennedy hot springs or the trail junction near there.

[chelle]

Don't know how much snow is still on the Sitkum approach. The camp is just below 6000' I think. So I'd cache them in your tent at camp. You may not need boots until after camp.