Most holidays I'm able to join my buddys in the mountains for a hike of epic proportions. This holiday was no exception! Alexie's idea was Bedal Peak, located northeast of Seattle about 2 hours away.
Our hiking group consisted of Alexie, Greg, Adam, Brent and myself. We started on the trail at 8:50 am and quickly were dealing with some very thick forest that covered the sun filled sky. The trail is not "maintained" and is what we would call a "boot path".
Our route meandered through the woods and greadually led up into the snow.
Soon we found ourselves in a snowy wonderland with the summit of Bedal Peak far above.
We crossed some exposed granite slabs and made our way up the the eastern ridge.
Adam at this point was leading as we crossed a steep snowfield. We had our ice axes at the ready as we were prepared for a possible slip on the snow and needed to self arrest. We carefully crossed and found a few chunks of rock top scramble up. He and I donned our helmets and headed up the rock. The other guys opted to take the slightly longer and snow covered route. We approached the snow free summit block and we carefully made our way up to the top.
Once on the summit the views were spectacular!!!!!
We headed back down from the summit and took advantage of some good snow conditions and got in some really good glissades.
Was a fabulous day this was. A wonderful holiday with great friends. This is a summit that I would like to visit again and soak in the views again. Oh, from this summit there were a few volcanoes in view including the below shot of Glacier Peak.
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