Trip
Day Hike - Alaska Lake
Trip will initially open to Tacoma Branch Conditioning Hiking Students. Trip will open for registration to all Mountaineers, based on availability, 7-10 days prior to date of the hike.
- Sun, Jul 17, 2022
- Tacoma Hiking & Backpacking Committee
- Day Hiking
- Adults
- Moderate
- Easy
- Mileage: 11.3 mi
- Elevation Gain: 1,900 ft
- Pace: 1.5 - 2 mph
- 5 (11 capacity)
- Cancellation & Refund Policy
This hike will start at the Gold Creek Trailhead Parking Lot. We will meet at 7am at the North Bend Safeway and then proceed to the Gold Creek Trailhead.
Skills focus for July are Illumination, Insulation (Hypothermia), Fire, and Repair Kit & Tools.
Directions to the trail head:
Drive Interstate 90 east to Exit 54, 2 miles east of the Snoqualmie Pass summit. Exit I-90, turn north, crossing under the freeway. A few hundred feet north of the highway interchange, turn right onto a narrow paved road (FR 4832) and drive east parallel to the freeway for 1 mile. Turn left on Gold Creek Road (142). Watch out for a few potholes on the unimproved forest road. Turn left in 0.3 mile onto the paved road and into the Gold Creek Pond parking lot.
Northwest Forest Pass required
More details will be emailed out on the Friday before the hike.
Alaska Lake is one of the lakes on the Olympia Branch Alpine Lakes list.
Trip will initially open to Tacoma Branch Conditioning Hiking Students. Trip will open for registration to all Mountaineers, based on availability, 7-10 days prior to date of the hike.
Gold Creek Basin
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Green Trails Snoqualmie Pass Gateway No. 207S
Green Trails Snoqualmie Pass No. 207
USGS Chikamin Peak
USGS Snoqualmie Pass - See full route/place details.
Required Equipment
- Navigation
- Sun protection
- Insulation (extra clothing)
- Illumination
- First aid supplies
- Fire
- Repair kit and tools, including knife
- Nutrition (extra food)
- Hydration (extra water)
- Emergency shelter