Trip Report
Alpine Scramble - Guye Peak/North Route
Excellent snow conditions and good weather window along with a great group made this an enjoyable outing.
Richard Shaw
- Sat, May 13, 2017
- Alpine Scramble - Guye Peak/North Route
- Guye Peak, Snoqualmie Mountain & Cave Ridge (Alpental)
- Scrambling
- Successful
- Road suitable for all vehicles
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Spring snow is finally here; consolidated snow make footing excellent for the entire route. Log crossing is in great shape with about a 5 foot down climb from the snow to snow-free logs, but good steps make it easy.
Excellent group made the trip very enjoyable. We were fortunate to have the entire trip in a decent weather window encountering no worse than a few passing snow showers. The snow is nicely consolidated for he entire route creating no challenges. The log bridge crossing is snow free; there is a 5 foot snow bank to negotiate to get onto the log bridge, but the snow is firm with decent steps. Took snowshoes and micro-spikes, but used neither. Some icy & hard snow on the wooded steep slopes on the way up allowed us to get in a little ice axe practice. Ate lunch at the flat below the summit where we added our fifth team member - Frosty, The Snowman.