Mount Teneriffe — Friday, Jan. 25, 2002

Snoqualmie Region > North Bend Area

Due to icy highways we decided on a late start for Mt Tenerife. To get to Tenerife one drives 1 mi past the Mt Si trailhead, to a bus turnout/parking area on Left and were ""private"" road begins. Started hiking at 10:45am w/a little snow on road. A couple miles up, at 2800 ft we put on the snowshoes. Hiked thru 12-24"" of new snow. The intent was to go to Tenerife, but met up w/another local, went straight when we should of gone right at one of the switchbacks, so ended up ""higher"" on a ridge road which the ""local"" person call Snag Peak. Made it to 4700 ft summit where fresh snow was 2ft deep. Very beautiful, on top the trees were plastered hard w/snow. They made awesome figures. Theres a ""cool"" snag tree standing on this summit, about 30 ft tall. If you used your imagination it remined me of a miniture ""space needle"". 3hr45min up 5 mi, down 2hr. It would of been another 1mi to saddle of Tenerife, where one turns off the road for the summit ridge. We had some sunshine and awesome views of Mt Si and surrounding peaks. One tree down, many trees were weighted down, bent over, covering the road.