Granite Peak, Snoqualmie, Wa we left from mercer island around 8:30am, after eating breakfast, gassing up and buying some bottled water. arrive at a ranger station in Snowqualmie around 9:20am and are on the trail hiking around 9:40am. the forest was dark and wet. the trail was very easy to walk on. the grade was moderate with plenty of switchbacks. there were lots of huge pine trees and some dead ones still stood quite tall. after an hour or so we started crossing some cleared out gaps in forest. slides. we crossed three or four slides. we emerged onto open meadow. a few pines stuck out of the hillside. the meadow was widespread and provided copious huckleberries. after a mile or so we started tasting a different berry, maybe bear berry. i picked constantly while attempting to keep up my pace. there was a deer i guess. we reached a bowl area, took photos, wandered off the trail briefly. we hiked on the trail along a ridge above the bowl. the trail winds up a valley into a wider bowl and where the watchtower is visible. the trail winds some more between a few large mossy pine trees. short switch backs take you up to the summit. clouds obscured the southern view. where we ate lunch just off the summit to the north the clouds broke enough to see a few peaks within granite peaks range. a chipmunk scurried around where we ate. i ate four cookies or something, a sandwich and an orange or something. we hiked back and the horizon laid out before us. the clouds vanished. we finished hiking at 4:20pm.