PNW Snowshoe Invite

“SARboy and Trailartist invite you PNW folks on an overnight excursion to Reflection and Louise Lakes within Mt. Rainier National Park.

Meet at trailhead: 11:00 AM Saturday March 3rd.

About the hike: It is 1.5 miles into Reflection Lakes. We will set up camp there and then day hike onto Louise Lake (1.5 miles). The total elevation gain for the entire trip is 560 ft.

This is a snow camp trip, so come prepared, any questions about what you might need, we will try to answer as best as me can.

PERMITS: This hike is with in the National Park. You will need a permit for park entrance, you can get that at the Road Ranger station at the entry of the park. These are 10.00 per vehicle and are good for 7 days.
Backcountry permits are required for overnight trips. We can have up to 11 people on a permit and that is as many as we can have on this trip anyway, groups more than that can not go into the backcountry away from the Paradise area. We are more than willing to pick up the group overnight permit, it is free. It needs to be picked up at the Longmire Museum. The info we would need to do this is the list of names and the liscence plate numbers for all cars coming on the trip. So as we see who is interested we can talk further about that. But you will need to pick up your Entrence permit yourselves.
There is a designated overnight parking area at this Trailhead...WE MUST park there so as not to be in the way of snowplows. Also the gate going out of the park closes around 5pm.

Directions: Drive east of Tacoma on State route 7 and bear right onto State route 706 at the town of Elbe. Continue east through the Nisqually Entrance of the park, and proceed to the Narada Falls View Area OVERNIGHT parking lot.

Well I think that covers it...First come first serve on the permit...solet me know if you can do this for sure!
2 spots all ready taken...SARBoy and Trailartist.”

“I'd love to go, but I need to check my schedule. I just got some new snowshoes and have only been able to use them once :( Sounds like a good excuse to get out there. I well let you know ASAP”

“Trailartist, I took the liberty of putting your event on the calendar as a test, it even has a link for a general map.”

“I will go, too.
You will hafta come to my house and open yer truck so I can hop in and you can bring me cuz my daddy hasta werk. I do not need no slow shoes, neither. I can sleep with you and keep rats out of yer tent and keep us warm. I can dig snew to help. I will be a good help for yer trip.

My hous is by our rode. DO NOT turn the nother way cuz there is a mean cow that way. I will be the perty dog standin on the porch. I will awreddy have on my pakpak and be reddy and waitin.

My dress is:
My Hous
Our Rode
Georgia
American

Our ringer is 555-#*9-32-*00-#674-90, ext 23 if you get lost and need to ring me.

Thank you for invitin me. We will have fun.”

“I'll let you guys know if I can commit soon. Are you two interested in a little taste of the Canadian backcountry? Great photo ops there!”

“Tundra, I am!! I won't spoil this thread(any more than I am already!), but if you wanna' hike the Rockies, e-mail me! I'm going out over the spring break & would love the company.”

“Just keeping the topic alive....anyone interested? Anyone?”

“March 3, eh? Probably not. What's the elevation of the area?”

“March 3, eh? Probably not. What's the elevation of the area?”

“High point is 5100ft...”

“I promised my wife we'd do some more snowshoeing next month but I don't think she'd be up for an overnighter.”

“that's to bad...it is really pieceful out there at night...as long as you have the gear to stay warm...”

“what's the temp expected to get at night up there? around 20?”

“SARboy and trailartist.
If I could make it I'd bring you some shrimp etoufe. Maybe one summer you two can host a PNW week long hike to show us some of your favorite hiking turf. If so, I want to sign up.”

“did anybody hear about Mt. Baker last weekend? I heard that it vented some steam, melted some snow and had a bit of a mud flow.

This info comes from a guy at work, and I cannot verify if it is true. Anybody hear anything?”

“I haven't heard about Baker.. one would think that would make the big news..

solitary hiker.. I'm planning two PNW hikes in August. One is about 4-5 days the other about 3.”

“temps really depend on if it stays clear or clouds over...a 20 degree bag with a fleece liner and a good pad underneath has done just fine at close to zero for me...if you have sleeping bags tha tzip together then that is even better...the warmer of the two will help keep the other one toasty.
Yes heard about Mt. Baker...only the steam though.
Trailartist (not SARBoy)”

“Here is another possiblity...after talking to another backpacking buddy, we are now considering moving this trip to the following weekend...10th and 11th of March. Does this date work for any of you? Javaboy? Winddragon?”

“?it is really pieceful out there at night? SARboy what do you mean by that? Is their something Freudian in your spelling of ?pieceful??”

“TeHe... I would love to give my husband the credit for that spelling error...but , alas, it was me...still had not switched over to me on the computer. tehe...there could be something to that slip in the spelling....
**blush**”

“The weekend after would be better for me, I think. I put in for leave, but being the new guy it didn't sounds like I would get it. I am still trying.”

“Well consider it done... it is now the weekend of the 10th and 11th... had some takers via e-mail...hope you can make it Javaboy...”

“I was going to send a general e-mail aout to those of you that showed some interest...however I do not have Java's e-mail address... mind sending it to me?
markskirschner@home.com”

“its very tempting.. but honestly I probably can't commit to the hike. Perhaps next winter I'll be more prepared for winter camping.”

“SARBoy and Trailartist, how did it go? Trip report, please!”

“Yes yes... Please do report... I need to know what I missed! :(”