Went back to Kachess Ridge to see if the snow has melted out. Jim joined me which makes the hike a lot more pleasant. The day was beautiful with blue skies and a pleasant temperature in the low 70’s. The trail itself goes up very steeply, but it is mostly in the shade and usually has a cool breeze coming up from the creek. There is a trail/scramble off of the main trail to the top of the ridge where an aircraft beacon used to be located. Beacons were put on several of the peaks in the Cascades to guide mail planes at night during the 1930’s. Once we broke out of the trees there was a great hike along the ridge with views down to Kachess lake and over to Rainier. 
On the way up, we scrambled to a ridge with with a great garden of Spreading Stonecrop. It’s one of the best flowers I’ve seen grow from a pile of rocks.
And we had a pleasant time setting on the mossy banks of silver creek.
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