Valhalla Peak, Tunnel Creek — Monday, May. 27, 2024

Starting at the northern trailhead on Tunnel Creek and Forest Road 2740, we hiked this on memorial day with a party of 3. Arrived to parking lot about 8:30 AM and we were the only car there. Only saw one other car arrive as we were leaving at the end of the day. The trail to the shelter was in good shape with only a few trees down that were easy to get around. The bridge over Tunnel Creek is in rough shape as others have mentioned, watch out for the exposed rebar. From the bridge up there were a few spots with water flowing on the trail but nothing that will get your feet wet. We encountered our first snow around 4700 feet, same as others have mentioned. We all used poles, but did not need microspikes. More intermittent snow patches up to one more larger and a little steeper snow section that will get you up to 5050 pass. GPS was useful to keep us on trail as some of the snow patches were somewhat long but easy enough to cross. From about 5050 pass up to the peak was snow free. Lots of little wild flowers blooming near the peak, and only saw one other party at the top that came in from Dosewallips. Unfortunately the views were limited due to clouds.