Alex Berger
Wendy Kahn
Mikael Kvart (photographer)
Jon Newman
Eric Zager (trip leader)
Gold Creek (I-90 Exit 54), second path. The first path is right off the freeway, the second path is a mile or two east along the road, and the cross-country path is further down the road (there is no turnoff or turnaround past the second path).
This trail is too narrow and ungroomed for cross-country skiers but it is fine for snowshoeing. It follows a gradual incline for most of the trip, with some short steep stretches a few miles in.
The snow was excellent, dry and deep. Without snowshoes you could posthole pretty far down. A little pellet snow fell around lunchtime, but the promised windstorm did not materialize in the mountains (in Seattle the wind was strong enough to knock out power in many areas).
At The Car
On The Road
Underway
A Greeting
Climbing
Posthole
High Country
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