Mineral Creek, Ice Creek - Ice Lakes & Park Lakes — Wednesday, Jul. 30, 2003

Snoqualmie Region > Salmon La Sac/Teanaway

Left the mineral creek trail head at 630pm tuesday. I was slow going so it took me two hours fifteen. Nobody at Park lake. BUGS everywhere. As bad as I have ever seen. Wednesday I woke early and headed up to the crest. After turning left on the crest it was only 35 minutes or so before I say the climbers/fishermen trail turning right up the ridge. This trail takes you to Glacier lake. I made it to Glacier in an hour. At Glacier I watered up and headed up to Chickamin. The way to Chickamin is interesting for sure. I got there 1.5 hours later. At Chickamin I stayed and relaxed for a while. Not much snow anywhere, and no bugs. The wind rolls through the lake and does a good job keeping the bugs away. At 11am I headed out for Ice Berg. The way around chickamin is ugly with loose small talus. It took 1/2 hour. The way to Ice berg is HORABLE! Tons of elevation loss and gain. Steep severe side hill traversing. Small loose talus everywhere. I decided to do it anyway. After all that, and three hours I arrived at Ice Berg. NO campsite anywhere. What a lonely lake! The way down to Avalanche is bad! Steep steep steep. All in all beautiful lakes that I wont ever be going back to! Well, the berg and avalanche that is. TB