Talapus Lake Snowshoe — Sunday, Dec. 12, 2010

Snoqualmie Region > Snoqualmie Pass

The weather conditions were terrible. It was dumping rain, a tree had fallen blocking the road to the trail head so we parked and walked about 2 miles to the trail head. Even in the snow the trail was fairly easy to follow. It was fairly slushy in some spots our snowshoes sinking through the slush to a temporary river running under the snow. pretty basic trail lots of switchbacks. Talapus lake was partly melted and partly frozen. It was really beautiful. We would like to have stayed longer and enjoyed our accomplishment, but the freezing rain was chilling to the bone so we turned back and made good time back to the truck. We were freezing and soaked when we got back to the truck. My hands were so numb that I could hardly get my equipment off. Still a good time and great experience.