I hiked this trail up to the ridge top. There was a tree that was covering the road to the trail head about three miles from the parking area to the trail entrance. I stopped by the ranger station in Quilcene on the way out and informed one of the rangers so I'm assuming by now that it has been cleared. I was able to drive around it with no problem.

The trail up to Tunnel Creek Shelter was in good shape. There was one blowdown that was no problem as you could walk around it. The shelter looks to be in good shape and the area around the shelter was clean of debris and trash.

The hand rail on the foot bridge crossing the creek is broken off half way across, but it wasn't an issue in terms of walking on the bridge. After crossing the bridge, the trail begins its ascent and in several places the trail was muddy. In between the bridge and Karnes Lake, there is a significant blowdown that you have to crawl under.

From Harrison Lake until you reach the ridge top, there is one more blowdown that is smaller, but I had to crawl underneath or rather duck underneath that one. As you get closer to the ridge top, the trail becomes more or less loose rocks.

Due to it being cloudy, I wasn't able to see much of the scenery that day, and it was somewhat cold.

On the way back, I passed three other hikers and a good sized family that had spent the weekend at Harrison Lake.

Finally some dry hiking weather this summer! The Tunnel Creek trail is beautiful all the way up, although there are a few trees across the trail half way up the switchbacks to Hrrison Lakes.

Left on Saturday morning on a great afternoon hike to the shelter. Trail was in very good condition all the way to the shelter. Trail begins to be snow covered about half way up the trail to harrison lake. Lake was about 50% covered with snow, but melting rapidly. Trail was a bit hard to follow, but there were plenty of footsteps to follow and was fairly easily found.

We found a perfect campsite on far side of the lake that had no snow coverage. Perfect afternoon sun provided us with lots of sun and relaxation.

The trail up to peak 5345 was in good condition also and we had beautiful views on our day at the peak.

I anticipate that within a couple of weeks most snow will be melted and the trails easily followed.

We hiked Tunnel Creek Trail to Fifty-Fifty Pass on a Monday and had the trail to ourselves all day. Despite the fact that the day turned sunny and warm at home, the clouds hung on the ridges and the pass was in a cloud, so no views. However the flower show in the meadows is at its peak, with beargrass, lupine, phlox, white & pink heather, mountain daisies, tiger lilies, Indian hellabore, penstemon, stonecrop and valerian blooming. The trail is in good shape except for blow downs. There are two large trees down just above the shelter (within sight of the shelter)on a side hill above the creek, a large one across the trail and another beside it which took out a chunk of the trail when its root wad pulled out of the ground. There are several trees down across the trail below and above a switchback between the shelter and the lakes - the lower one can be crawled under or climbed over, at the upper one, climb through the jumble of logs and branches or scramble up the hillside to go around. There are also several lesser logs across the trail, one about half way between the trailhead and the shelter and the rest above the shelter. There no snow on the trail or in the meadows.