Dang it SlowWalker, ya beat me to it! Your tracks were still barely visible in places even with the new snow.
I'll keep it short since SlowWalker wrote a good report already. I've always thought Denny Creek would be really pretty in the snow, but never considered going there in the winter because of avalanche danger. Glad I went up today! So much new snow! It started getting rapidly deeper from the point where I emerged onto the open slopes. The branches were weighted with heavy snow and I had to launch a few pre-emptive strikes with my trekking poles to knock them free before going on. Around some of the boulders the drifts were very deep!
I went in boots and gaiters until around the switchbacks past the falls, then put on the snowshoes the rest of the way. It slowed me down alot, but helped a little with the postholing. Snow is still not consolidated at all. I hit the lakes right at my turnaround time so I didn't stay long. Just ate my sandwich and warmed up with some of SarBar's excellent trail cocoa. The slope with the trail to the upper lakes is too loaded to try to get up there.
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Your tracks were still barely visible in places even with the new snow.
I'll keep it short since SlowWalker wrote a good report already. I've always thought Denny Creek would be really pretty in the snow, but never considered going there in the winter because of avalanche danger. Glad I went up today! So much new snow! It started getting rapidly deeper from the point where I emerged onto the open slopes. The branches were weighted with heavy snow and I had to launch a few pre-emptive strikes with my trekking poles to knock them free before going on. Around some of the boulders the drifts were very deep!
I went in boots and gaiters until around the switchbacks past the falls, then put on the snowshoes the rest of the way. It slowed me down alot, but helped a little with the postholing. Snow is still not consolidated at all. I hit the lakes right at my turnaround time so I didn't stay long. Just ate my sandwich and warmed up with some of SarBar's excellent 
