{"id":4221,"date":"2020-01-20T22:59:14","date_gmt":"2020-01-20T14:59:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.huangyizhou.com\/?p=4221"},"modified":"2022-04-23T06:52:38","modified_gmt":"2022-04-22T22:52:38","slug":"20200120annette-lake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.huangyizhou.com\/index.php\/2020\/01\/20\/20200120annette-lake\/","title":{"rendered":"(Failed) Hiking to Annette Lake"},"content":{"rendered":"

Second day of my Seattle trip as my friend and I hiked (part of) Annette Lake Trail in Mt. Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest.<\/p>\n

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When searching for hiking trails with snow near Seattle, I found that the mountains near I90 were popular among locals. And the trails were clustered around two regions, the town of North Bend (Rattlesnake Mountain \/ Mount Si) and Snoqualmie Pass (many mountains).
\nEven more helpful was Washington Trails Association’s website<\/a> with details of the trails and many community trail reports, from which I learned snow would be more plentiful in Snoqualmie Pass region (only turned out to be too much), so I dug things deeper and picked Annette Lake Trail, that led to a beautiful lake and wasn’t rated too difficult.<\/p>\n

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<\/br>Mountains by Highway<\/p><\/div>\n

It’s winter and the road to “Annette Lake Trailhead” on Google Maps was impassable with snow. And it’s Martin Luther King Day so the mountains were popular with people. So after finding that parking was extremely limited (if ever existed) South of I90 near the ramps, we parked our car North of I90 on “NF-9034” road by Google Maps. This added 2km of roundtrip distance to our trip.<\/p>\n

By the way, technically one should pay for parking at trailhead (except limited holidays like MLK day today). But since the trailhead parking lot was inaccessible, and there’s no fee box near where we parked, I guess in winter it’s free for all?<\/p>\n

And here’s GPS tracking:
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