Gold Creek Trail is clear of snow and windfall from the lower trailhead 2.8 miles to the Dog Hair Trail junction (~0.7 mile above the Sleepy Hollow Creek crossing). Snow remains above ~2700' elevation.

Three windfall trees remain 6 to 7 feet ""overhead"" above the trail, and are located just above the switchbacks, only 0.1 mile above the Gold Creek crossing. These are no problem for hikers or mountain bikers, but horse riders may have to dismount to pass beneath them. They are 18"", 12"" and 8"" in diameter; one is over the trail ""lengthwise"" for about 50 feet; it'd be easiest to clear these with a chainsaw.

We started our hike at the newer TH on the 2870 Road about a mile above the TH described in Robert Wood's book.Thanks again to the WTA crew which cleared the trail to the river at about 2 miles and above to a point where there is a MASSIVE dominoe effect blowdown. We were unable to go beyond this point because of the size of the trees and the washed out trail.This was at perhaps .25 miles from the river as you begin going up towards the washed out bridge.We were back at the TH about 1:00 so decided to do part of the Gold Creek Trail.We started at the lower end near the former East Crossing CG. The Dungeness River is beautiful at the beginning of this trail. There's a dandy bridge crossing Gold Creek. It's a fallen log across the creek. Handrails and steps have been added to the fallen tree!We hiked about 2 miles one way.It appeared that the trail had been cleared earlier. 2 trees have fallen since this clearing and they are easily climbed over over.