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Lake Easton State Park, Palouse to Cascades Trail - Easton — Sunday, Jan. 7, 2024

Snoqualmie Region > Cle Elum Area
Kachess Beacon from Easton State Park

Easton State Park has a snopark that is an alternative to the super busy one at Gold Pond up by Snoqualmie Pass. Not much snow down in Easton today, so they haven’t started to groom the trails yet,but that should change with the snow coming in this week. I only used snowshoes for a short period of time near the Palouse to Cascades trail. Not many folks here today, as I only ran into  one group of hikers, and a couple groups of cross country skiers.

 I was planning on going further on the Palouse to Cascades trail eastbound,but the bridge/ trestle that crosses the Yakima River and train tracks was fenced off. I was going to take that eastbound and do some exploring east of the trestle, and maybe find an alternative way up to Monahan Mountain. I think this is a seasonal closure. I’m going to check with the park ranger tomorrow, and hopefully find out. Will post an update. 
GPS track below. Quite flat as it was only 200 ft gain in 3 miles 

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