ok, so linsday and i got up sorta early on saturday to head up to snoqualmie pass for an AM hike and some afternoon shredding at alpental. due to the abundance of snow this season, we figured we'd have to go pretty far east of the pass to find some trails that weren't still covered with snow. we wound up driving out to Easton (70 miles east of seattle) and hiking a portion of the Easton Ridge trail towards Mt. Baldy. we hit the 'trail' around 10am and wandered around near a creek/stream for a while before getting to the real trail head. there wasn't too much snow on the lower elev. portions of the trail, we only saw one other person (for about 5 sec), and it was about 75 to 80 degrees out. the birds were going nuts up there and we saw a few hawks soaring, tons of songbirds, and even a humming bird. the snow got pretty thick at the top of the ridge and we tried to follow the buried trail for a while before giving up and resting at a scenic spot to rehydrate and play with the binoculars. we turned back to the truck around 12:30 and hoofed it back so we could get and hour or so of shredding in. on the way back we heard some pretty loud grunting that must have been an elk. i'm not a scat expert yet, but man, there were turds all over that trail. next time i promise some pics.
part two, we made it back to the truck with no problem and headed west to the ski hill. got to the parking lot around 1:45, changed, and hit the lifts. by the time we got there it was pretty obvious that at least half the people up there were drunk and a bunch of bozos were too tough to ski/shred with shirts on. witnessed most of them fall at least once while riding the chair, 'how's that strawberry feel brah?' anyways, we took a few runs up on chair 2 at alpental and the views were amazing (see 6th pic)! the snow was super slushy and fun too, even though our legs were pretty tired. blah blah blah, we went to north bend and ate NACHOS!!!
hiking pics:
snowboarding pics:
NACHOS
NACHOS
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