20 miles of hiking • 3500' elevation gain •
Oh my...
Meet Magnus and Mayhem in Amboy right before 5:00 and Magnus shuttled us up to the Siouxon Creek TH in his AWD.
Was snowing right down to 1200' but there was only a few inches of accumulation at the TH parking area.
Headed on Siouxon Creek trail to Chinook Falls and forded again using the decent log that is there.
Stayed out of snow shoes all the way up to about 2700 or 2800', I should have checked that better but we decided once it was about 18'' or so deep we put on the snow shoes.
Breaking trail wasn't too bad when under some tree cover but once we got out onto a totally open road section it got very slow going and very difficult. We shared the breaking trail duty but Mayhem ended up breaking a lot more trail than Magnus or me!
Bypassed Siouxon Peak this time and just kept going. Seemed like it was very close up a little spur trail.
Highlight of the day was seeing Wildcat Falls and getting back out of the snow line.
Forded Wildcat Creek with no problem but had to dip my boots into Chinook Creek since we were only 3 miles or so from the car I didn't care if I had wet feet.
Roman
November 20, 2011
That's a lot of work in snowshoes! Love the views, never been up that trail.