Franklin Falls, Denny Creek

Decided to try hiking to Franklin falls today since it was buried in snow two weeks ago. The road down from Hyak was closed due to snow but the road up from Exit 45 was open up to the trail head tho there was snow aplenty. The hike is only one mile and was a mix of open but wet trail plus hardpan snow up to three feet deep. There were well over 100 people there today, many hiking in sneakers, flip-flops and carrying babies in backpacks, crazy and risky as that is. The falls was carrying a lot of water while a side canyon looked to be buried in a glacier. The mist from the falls was being carried quite a ways.
We also did the Denny Creek trail up about two miles. Snow made finding the trail difficult at times and we found several people who had hiked and gotten lost but managed to find their way back. At two miles, the snowpack was just too deep to continue so we bushwhacked our way alongside the river most of the way back and came across another waterfall just as tall as Franklin falls but with the river cascading thru a narrow channel and boiling and exploding with vigor. Back at the parking lot, we looked at the map and we weren't sure what falls we had seen since the map didn't jibe with our recollection of the path we forged.