Mount Si, Mount Teneriffe — Tuesday, Mar. 19, 2002

Snoqualmie Region > North Bend Area

This was to be our second attempt at this illusive traverse. The first time we had low visibility and wound up following other tracks that went in a circle? We went up Wednesday afternoon, go to the summit of Si at noon, and started the traverse in deep wet powder, a real slog. We followed the fireroad to just near Teneriffe, but we had no visibility and only knew that we needed to head East, but that would put us somewhere in a basin so we continued on a ridgeline that lead us to the Twilightzone. After wandering around for 2 hours, we hit our turnaround time and headed back. Once we were back at the end of the fireroad, we looked back and saw the faint outline of Teneriffe. We were way off is all I can say, about 1/2 mile past it heading north. Will only try this again on a clear day. I sure hope no one follows our tracks! scott@nwog.org