Trails for everyone, forever

Home Go Hiking Trip Reports Boardman Lake

Trip Report

Boardman Lake — Friday, Dec. 1, 2023

North Cascades > Mountain Loop Highway

Got a late start and didn't actually make it to the trailhead today.

Once we hit the junction with Pinnacle Lake there were no tire tracks heading to Boardman Lake, just fresh wet snow. It got deeper as we made our way to Boardman. 

Got about 450 feet from the trailhead before getting stuck. We could have walked the rest of the way, but after getting ourselves out we decided to head out before it got dark instead since we weren't as prepared as we should have been for snow conditions. If we had more time and were more prepared this was highly doable. With more snow coming, that might not be the case even tomorrow.

Unless it warms up significantly, it appears that this road is done for the next 5+ months other than for the highly adventurous!

That uphill hairpin turn :') not gonna lie it hurt to look at the google map and realize how close we were!
Did you find this trip report helpful?

Comments