Peek-a-Boo Lake — Friday, Aug. 13, 1999

North Cascades > Mountain Loop Highway

After much fussing around the city Saturday morning, Ean and I finally arrived at the Peek-a-Boo Lake trailhead late Saturday afternoon. Or what we THOUGHT was the trailhead. Since the REAL trailhead is a bit overgrown and I didn't consult my topo map right away, we ended up starting out on the forest service road, and hiking for about a mile before we realized that we were not on the right trail. On the way back down, we ran into 4 other hikers that had the same problem. We all headed back down the road and started on the real trail, to Peek-A-Boo Lake. A few blowdowns in places, but most are easily managable. We reached the meadow at 4300 feet and discovered quite a bit of snow. It took us a while to find the trail on the other side of the snow--I would suggest using your compass. No views, as it was pretty cloudy. Peek-a-Boo Lake was quite nice, very quiet (we were the only two people there) and peaceful. It was cloudy all weekend but not rainy until we reached our car the next day. This is a pretty short hike and the lake has some really nice campsites.