This is just past the East Summit on Snoqualmie Pass over the Cascades. We originally intended to use the snowshoe trails run by Summit at Snoqualmie but instead I think we ended up wandering around the SnoPark trails because we didn't have to pay a $10 trail fee. We put chains on the car although in retrospect I don't think we needed them and ended up taking them right back off for the return drive home. At least we now have chains that fit the car and also we now know how to put them on. You would think someone would have thought of an easier way to put those on by now. It's near impossible to get your hands back there to latch it inside the wheel well.
We hiked for about three hours, maybe a mile and a half up and back. Lots of people around but not so bad once you hike out about half a mile. I took way too many clothes and ended up having to shove a lot of layers into Thom's backpack. All in all, if you owned snowshoes it'd be a pretty cheap way of getting into the snow for a nice Sunday. I'd like to go back and find some other snowshoe trails and make a real day out of it and get in several miles. We left Oscar over at Kobe's house while Emily came with us so the dogs wouldn't be lonely.
