After quite a few days of heavy snow in the cascades, the sun finally came out. I decided to snowshoe Annette Lake trail and arrived there around at noon. I parked my car at ~0.2 mile and snowshoed Asahel Curtis Rd to the TH. There was nobody on the trail (I saw one skier who skied from Tinkham Rd.) From the TH to the switchback, Trail condition was not that bad even though snow was quite deep. But, from the first switchback, snow patches were getting way deeper and it was really hard to get through it even with my snowshoe and, eventually, my body sank down into the snow, OMG, my legs got stuck in it! Yes. I gave up and return back. I couldn't make it to the Lake but it was a fun snowshoeing with a little sunshine and gusty winds.
Annette Lake Trailhead
The forest road from Exit 47 to here is inaccessible.
Granite Mountain
McClellan Butte
Humpback Mountain and Iron Horse (John Wayne Pioneer) Trail
Iron Horse (John Wayne Pioneer) Trail to Snoqualmie Tunnel
Switchback
Couldn't find any trace of the trail. Lucky thatI I had downloaded a reference trip to the Ramblr app before hitting this trail and I didn't lost!
Getting steeper and deeper
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