Tyler Peak Trail — Saturday, May. 21, 2022

We had a lot of fun, on one of my last hikes in Washington because were moving due to work. Trail in excellent condition, snow-free all the way till the treeline at 4,800, where a small snowfield covers the trail but is easy to cross because it's shallow, it will be gone by early June. 

After the small snowfield, the trail is completely snow-free until 5,500. These small snowfields/ big snow patches are receding, they will be gone by early June. All the other mountains in the area are buried in snow.

I listed the snow conditions as " Intermittent snow- not hard to cross", and while they were intermittent, they were not easy to cross although we never put on our gaiters because we were already really close to the ridge. From the ridge, we scrambled up Peak B, a slightly smaller peak west of Tyler Peak.

It didn't take more than ten minutes to scramble up Peak B from its west face. The west face is only a class 2 scramble with occasional spots of class 3 that are doable. When we got to the top of Peak B, the air temp was probably around 40, but the windchill was in the twenties. 

We managed to hunker down behind boulders at the top to stay away from the frigid wind. At the top, we could see Canada, Dungeness Spit, Vancouver Island, Protection Island, San Juan Islands, the Strait of Juan de Fuca, Mount Baldy, Buckhorn, Inner Constance, Mount Townsend, Blue Mountain, and the list goes on and on.

We were fortunate to have the clouds above us or else we would have had whiteout conditions with no views as in the last trip report. Speaking of the last trip report, Mike Groenewegen made an excellent trip report on April 30th. We didn't go over to Tyler Peak for many reasons.

We were really cold on the ridgetop, the wind was howling. The snow conditions didn't look that bad but were running out of time, and the views on Peak B were about the same as Tyler Peak. If you have any questions write them in the comments.