Seriously though, some accumulation we expected, and perhaps snow on the trail at the pass. Um…not quite. Jeff described the drifts at the pass as “knee high in places,” which means, of course, upper thigh high for me. Flynn was thrilled.
Undaunted (okay, fine, we almost turned around at the first lake when we saw how deep the snow was heading up to the pass, but then we put our big girl pants on and went for it), we hiked the full Gold Creek Loop—11+ miles, 2400 feet in elevation gain…and snow. Lots of snow. Superlatives fail me! I mean come on:
We made our home for the night a few miles back down scenic Seedhouse Road, at a nearly-deserted campground of the same name as its host road.
Day's Lesson: Snow makes things pretty, climb higher.
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