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Snow Lake (King County, Washington)

Snow Lake (King County, Washington)

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Snow Lake is located in King County, Washington. The lake is the "most visited lake in the Alpine Lakes Wilderness."[1] The lake is also stocked with rainbow trout for fishing.[2]

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The ruins of a cabin from 1930 exist near the lake, having collapsed in 1950 due to snow.[3][4]

Camping is available via forest service permit. Hikers can continue onwards to nearby Gem Lake or lower/upper Wildcat Lakes.[5]

Climate

Snow Lake has a hemiboreal climate.[6] The average temperature is 3 °C. The warmest month is August, with an average temperature of 15 °C, and the coldest month is January, at an average of −6 °C.[7] The average rainfall is 1,687 millimeters per year. The wettest month is December, with 247 millimeters of rain, and the least in July, with 33 millimeters of rain.

  • Snow Lake Trail map
  • View from the trail on the way to the lake
  • The lake in July 2020

References

  1. [1]
    Snow Lake Trail at Washington Trails Association.
  2. [2]
    Fish Stocking for Snow Lake at Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife site.
  3. [3]
    Berg, Dana (Jun 22, 2007). "Snow Lake Trip Report #1013". Washington Trails Association. Retrieved May 30, 2022.
  4. [4]
    Fenton, Don (Jan 6, 2007). "Camping At Snow Lake in the Nineteen-Forties: During World War II". PIAP. Archived from the original on Feb 27, 2007.
  5. [5]
    "Snow Lake and Gem Lake". We Found Adventure. September 29, 2013. Retrieved May 30, 2022.
  6. [6]
    Peel, M C; Finlayson, B L. "Updated world map of the Köppen-Geiger climate classification". Hydrology and Earth System Sciences. 11: 1639–1640. doi:10.5194/hess-11-1633-2007. Retrieved 19 March 2021.
  7. [7]
    "NASA Earth Observations Data Set Index". NASA. Retrieved 19 March 2021.


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