Big Four Ice Caves Trail
Trail No. 723
Elevation Gain 250' - 7 miles roundtrip
| FEBRUARY 11, 2007 - A Mountaineers snowshoe tour. This snowshoe hike begins where the Mountain Loop Highway
is closed for the winter. It is an easy hike to the Big Four Ice
Caves trail head, where there is a nice sheltered picnic area that gave
us some welcome relief from the rain. From the picnic area, it was
just a short hike to where the bridge over the Stillaguamish River used
to be. The bridge was destroyed by
the severe storms that hit our area during the fall. At the picnic area, several bold Steller's
Jays begged for handouts and provided brilliant flashes of blue against
the snowy backdrop. While we were resting in the shelter, an
avalanche roared down the Big Four Mountain that we were able to see and
hear from our safe
vantage point. I did not bring an umbrella, and many of my
photographs were ruined by raindrops on the camera lens. Lesson
learned!
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