Trip Report
Alpine Scramble - Guye Peak/North Route
Led a fun group of 8 participants (included assistant Travis Prescott) up the north route of Guye on a warm summer evening with an amazing sunset.
Stephen Johnson
- Tue, Aug 24, 2021
- Alpine Scramble - Guye Peak/North Route
- Guye Peak, Snoqualmie Mountain & Cave Ridge (Alpental)
- Scrambling
- Successful
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- Road suitable for all vehicles
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Route was clear as a bell, no snow, no moisture, no issues. First section of Snoqualmie Mtn trail is steep, some minor route finding required to find the turn-off toward Guye, then a gradual climb toward the 30' summit scramble with room for 8 on the summit ledges.
I was hoping the finicky weather this season would give us a good sunset, and it really did! Guye is an ideal shorter, after-work trip to help scrambling students do a low-consequence, low-exposure scramble. We were able to help two students earn their graduation scramble. Everyone did well, there were no issues, everyone seemed to have a good experience. We were down by 8:30 with need for headlamps during the last 20 minutes. Highly recommended for the shorter distance and big sunset payoffs around this time of year.