Had a lovely adventure over the past few days: biked from Seattle up to a camp on the Middle Fork Road on day one, finished biking to the Dingford Creek trailhead, hiked up and summitted Big Snow then camped at Big Snow Lake on day two, and hiked out and biked back home day three.
The hike up to Myrtle Lake is a good forest warm-up with plenty of blueberries; the bushwhack to the first gully was less intense and shorter-lived than I expected; Big Snow Lake and Snowflake Lake were absolutely stunning; the route up to the summit of Big Snow is pretty great, connecting talus and boulder-filled gullies. Most of the route is class 2 with a handful of other class 3 moves and lots of optional class 3/4 and slab walking. Two obligatory class 3 moves around boulders and trees at the top-out of the last gully to the Big Snow Lake outlet. I was able to easily go around the couple of lingering snowfields near the summit.
Saw multiple 10"+ trout in Big Snow Lake... I think cutthroat? Wish I had a pole.
I biked the Middle Fork Road on a steel-frame road bike with 33 mm tires with some tread. The section from Garfield Ledges to Dingford Creek TH was quite slow going (I was definitely under-biked) with a couple sections where I decided to just walk my bike for a few minutes through the roughest/largest rock sections.
I used this TR and accompanying GPX track: https://www.peakbagger.com/climber/ascent.aspx?aid=352842
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