Fired up from my Glacier Peak C2C attempt and looking for a longer run I had the required skills to complete, I set my sights on a solo push of Jade Lake and Dip Top Gap. I wanted a trail I was familiar with so route finding wouldn’t suck up a lot of my time on the trail. I backpacked at Jade Lake in the fall a few years go and chickened out of doing Dip Top Gap since the snow looked super icy from far away and I didn’t have much experience with steep snow at the time. It’s been high on my list of places to see ever since so I decided it was finally time!

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