Checking out the South Fork of the Snoqualmie River below the pedestrian bridge to Alpental. Source Lake, the origin of the river, is our intended destination.
Quite a trip walking through a ski area without snow. Here's the base of Alpental's Chair 1.
Gavin was not happy with the first misnavigation of the day. If only he knew what was to come...
Zoe posing in front of Snoqualmie Mountain while standing in the Alpental parking lot.
Here we are about a third of the way to Source Lake in a pretty open area. The trail is long gone and we've been busy bushwhacking our way upstream. The talus…
Our preferred hiking surfaces, when we could find them, were snow, rocks, and big-treed forest since those were the only places to escape the brush.
Entering a slightly treacherous snow zone with lots of little streams. Martin found one with his foot after collapsing a hidden snow bridge.
The snow got deeper the closer we got to Source Lake.
Trail, what trail?
Kathryn's facial expression for most of the hike. The faint trail completely vanished about half a mile into the 3 mile hike to Source Lake.
Gavin striding towards Source Lake as we finally made it through, a bit worse for wear.
Trying to figure out how we're going to get out of the Source Lake basin. We decided on the rightmost rock band which involved crossing no less than 6 streams…
A smile of relief that we made it to the lake uninjured. Well...Zilly hurt his paw so this was the end of his hike and the beginning of his hand-carry and…
Hmmm....where to go? So many streams...
After all our work to get there we didn't even sit down by the shore of Source Lake since the bugs were a bit too much.
Looking up at what, in winter, is the farthest out part of Alpental's backcountry.
