This Christmas holidays my mom visited and we took a little trip into Washington state to get away from the rain and into some snow. What we hadn’t anticipated was the amount of snow! Our first stop was Mt. Baker and with a fresh snowstorm, most of the trails we had wanted to try had vanished into hip-deep fresh powder hidden by 7 feet of snow banks. We did try our hardest to visit Picture Lake but this is about what we saw (assuming we were looking at the lake and not on top of it!)
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| This is Picture Lake (we are probably on top of it) |
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| Even with snowshoes we were sinking |
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| Mom wasn’t too amused by our attempt to hike |
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| Whiskey was quite happy for her jacket! |
We eventually found a really nice and easy mom-friendly snowshoe trail to try at the Salmon Ridge Sno-Park. The trail was called Elk Snowshoe trail and crossed a couple cross country trails.
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| Elk Snowshoe trail had much less snowfall |
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| the trail wasn’t very well maintained but it was easy to follow |
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| the little balls of snow are covered pebbles |
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| on leash while the drone flies! |
There was only one other car in the parking lot and we met no one on the snowshoe trail.
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| The river is so beautiful |
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| A very nice easy trail |
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| The road to Glacier town |
The trail itself was very flat and easy with a couple obstacles and was easily done in crampons or snowshoes. The part along the river was fantastic and we even got a little drone footage.
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| until next time! |
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