Moraine Park - Mystic Lake — Sunday, May. 11, 2014

Mount Rainier Area > NW - Carbon River/Mowich

Picking up this report from my report on the Carbon Glacier. The trail to dick creek is passable with easy, just navigate around the snow slide pile at the Carbon Glacier, its melting from the bottom up and only 2' of snow remaining. With afternoon sunshine, it was extremely soft. Spotty snow just after dick creek and solid snow after 4,200'. I got to a point about 1 mile from Mystic lake and turned around due to slide snow pile was too unsafe to cross and time limitations were winding down. I didn't sink too much with boots on the way up, but the snow shoes helped the speed and traction on the way down. Looks like another crack at it in two weeks.