Wallace Falls, Greg Ball Trail, Jay
Feb 03, 2010
by
Janice Van Cleve
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last modified
Feb 04, 2010 09:27 AM
- Type of Outing
- Day hike
- Read More in our Hiking Guide
- Hike: Wallace Falls
- Region: Central Cascades -- Stevens Pass - West
- Agency: Washington State Parks
- Avg Rating: 4.14
- Read More in our Hiking Guide
- Hike: Jay Lake
- Region: Central Cascades -- Stevens Pass - West
- Agency: Wallace Falls State Park
- Trails: Greg Ball Trail (#)
- Avg Rating: 3.50
Nice waterfall along the Greg Ball trail.
The hike to Wallace Falls is easy and popular but much more fun, it seemed to us, to turn off and take the Greg Ball trail up to Wallace Lake. The trail is in fine shape with neither mud nor snow all the way. This is a superb trail created by WTA youth work parties several years ago. The drainages could use clearing as most of them are clogged with silt and twigs. The trail gains gradually and after 3.5 miles from the trailhead comes to Wallace Lake. A road goes around the west side of Wallace Lake to its inflow (now dry) and continues for another easy mile up to Jay Lake. Here there are some new, well crafted, tent sites and a picnic table with stumps to sit on and a metal firepit. Somebody has blazed a trail with red flags and slash bushwhacking part way to Shaw Lake. We followed this through the underbrush, across the stream bed, and along the steep, slippery slope to the big tree trunk. There the bushwhacking seemed to end, less than a half mile from Shaw Lake. I'm not sure this is the path I would engineer to get there.
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Wallace Lake from west shore
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One of four campsites at Jay Lake
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