Mica Peak — Sunday, Jan. 16, 2022

Another day of Spokane shrouded in fog so a friend and I headed to Mica Peak Conservation Area in the afternoon. We found the sun and blue skies that stayed with us until sunset when the almost full moon showed up to light our path. Snowshoed up California Creek, connected to Moonshine trail and followed to the viewpoint of the Palouse. Snow was deeper from this point on and we followed a snowshoe track for a bit and then a set of boot/post holing tracks, glad we chose snowshoes at this point. Ran into two other WTA volunteers who had been to the summit, four volunteers out that day of the seven of us on trail. We returned down Moonshine trail/road that was very muddy and icy the lower we got.