Washington Online Weather predicted a nice Saturday so Packpup and I decided to take advantage and took a fun hike to Olallie Lake and Pratt Lake lookout points. After previously lugging our snowshoes to Talapus Lake, Granite Mountain, and Olallie Lake, we left them home this trip because the snow pack this year just had not warranted using them.
Leaving the Granite Mountain Trailhead it did not seem that we came across anything over a foot of snow until past the Alpine Lakes Wilderness boundary sign at approximately 3,600 feet. The snow was supportive even off trail and the crossing the inlet stream to Olallie Lake was inconsequential. It was free of snow under the tree at the Olallie Lake lookout point and we only started to encounter depths of three feet or more at the Pratt Lake lookout point at approximately 4,500 feet. Despite the nice weather we encountered very few hikers on the trail and just one overnight party consisting of a father and son who headed down to Pratt Lake.
Olallie Lake and Pratt Lake are both frozen over. Excellent views to Kaleetan and Chair Peaks from Pratt Lake lookout point. Rabbit tracks galore several hundred yards before crossing the inlet stream to Olallie Lake.
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"If destruction be our lot we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen we must live through all time or die by suicide."
— Abraham Lincoln
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