[TR] Snoqualmie Mt. - North gully 5/14/2007

[chesterboo]

Trip: Snoqualmie Mt. - North gully

 

Date: 5/14/2007

 

Trip Report:

I could not rally any of the usual suspects today, so I decided to go it alone up the North facing gully on Snoqualmie. I think it may be the Enigma gully but am not really sure. Temp at the lot was 32 degrees. The trail up to Snow lake was hard as a rock and stayed that way until I got over the divide and started decending down towards snow lake. I stayed at about 4300 feet and headed east and then up to the divide that separates snow lake from the thunder creek drainage. The going up to here was mostly postholing. From the ridge, you could see the avalance fan that is the base of the coulior. I dropped down into the basin into some wet, sunsoaked powder and plodded over to where I thought the gully was and sure enough, it was there. From the looks of it, it had been skied over the weekend too. The gully up was avalanche scoured and very hard. I two tooled up it about 1500 feet in total elevation gain from its base and it popped out to look down onto the Alpental parking lots. I Plunged down to the lot via cave ridge to complete the loop. This was a nice outing and a neat little loop. The conditions in the gully are perfect now. There is still allot of snow up in the high country. Red Mountain looks skiable still too.

I will post photos if I can figure it out.

 

Gear Notes:

two tools

 

Approach Notes:

via Snow lake

Edited May 14, 2007 by chesterboo