8.5 miles of hiking • 3250' elevation gain •
The plan was to run up Mailbox Peak and vandalize the mailbox, as I do every Spring, but it looked like the peak got a ton of new snow during the week. That trail is a slog when it's dry - only an insane Irishmen or a middle aged man with something to prove would climb it ass-deep in snow. So I decided to do Mount Si instead.
Si was compact snow most of the way, which kept the poodle herders and tennis show crowd from clogging up the summit. I pushed on to my usual turnaround point, about a quarter mile past the "Haystack," brewed up a cup of Joe and then called it a day.
