I got the chance to go check out a new trail on Thursday as part of my day off and I must say that I am extremely pleased. Snow Lake is out in the Snoqualmie Pass in North Bend, WA and I must say, it was a welcome treat after the day leading up to it. The day started innocently enough with a planned trip to Talapus Lake. I woke up around seven in order to get an early start with hopes of catching up with a friend for lunch. I hit my first snag when I discovered that I needed a parking pass to even get to the trail head. After driving twenty minutes west back to the ranger station and twenty minutes back to the trail head, I discovered that the road to the trail head had been washed out in three places and there was no way to access the trail. So, I turned around. Well, I would have turned around if there had been room do so. There wasn’t so I backed down the hill most of the way until I found a bend that I could use to turn around. I drove out to the […]