Thorp Mountain Lookout via Thorp Creek — Saturday, Apr. 30, 2005

Snoqualmie Region > Salmon La Sac/Teanaway

I meant to climb Thorp Mountain via Lenox Creek but ended up on this trail by mistake. In addition, I missed the trailhead and walked a hour up the forest road before pulling out the route desciption and realizing I not only missed the trailhead, the trailhead I missed wasn't even for the hike I intended to do. I backtracked down the road practically all the way to the parking lot. Having done a 2-mile 1500+ ft. ""warmup"" I then headed up the Thorp Creek trail. The trail soon hits snow up to 3 ft. If not knee-deep snow, then you're walking in ankle-deep running water. It can be followed up to the junction with the Thorp Lake spur. From there it's completely buried. Without a topo I just climbed straight up to a col hoping to get some idea from there which one of the look-alike humps was Thorp Mountain. I could not quite figure it out and had to settle for the view from there through the trees. I confirmed the correct route up Thorp on a topo when I got home, and feel that it's too steep to be climbed in the current snow conditions. Try again in 4-6 weeks.