I went hiking on Sunday (April 10) up near Snoqualmie pass. A friend of mine and I went up to try to go hiking into Snow lake. The trail head starts at Alpentall Ski Area and is a fairly short hike. But there is still too much snow to try to hike it without snowshoes. So we drove back down from the pass to the Lower Middle Fork of the Snoqualmie River. The drive to the Trailhead was somewhat lengthy. We drove along the valley and followed the middle fork for quite awhile on a logging road to the trailhead.

From I-90 the road goes past a few small housing developments. There are some nice houses back there. But . . . a little to far out of town for me. We drove several miles on the dirt road. I wish I had a 4x4. My car is not exactly set up for country road driving. I had to make sure I was going very slow so that I did not hit any unexpected pot holes. The trail begins at a bridge that crosses the river. You can either take the trail down stream along the Snoqualmie river or start hiking up river. We chose to go up river. We though that we might get ambitious and make it up to Snoqualmie lake but we decided not to.

The trail does not gain much altitude. So it is quite an easy hike. Although we found that there were a lot of tries and snags blocking the trail. So we had to find ways around them. Not too big of a deal !

After winding along the river for a while we found a bridge and over a small water fall. We decided this was as good a place as any to eat our pathetic Peanut butter and jelly sandwiches, filter some water and rest for a bit. After that we turned around and it felt like it took us half the time to make it back to the car.


I normally prefer to have a destination when I go hiking. Usually a lake. It's very early in the spring so there is still a lot of snow. Especially since we had a very heavy snow fall this year.