Weden Creek #724
Aug 29, 2001
- Type of Outing
- Day hike
- Read More in our Hiking Guide
- Hike: Weden Creek
- Region: North Cascades -- Mountain Loop Highway
- Trails: Weden Creek (#724)
- Avg Rating: 2.60
- Be Aware Of
- Blowdowns
- Overgrown
Round trip: 8 miles Elevation gain: 2800 (1600 ft in lst 1.8 mi) Left the car at the lot and walked gated road mile to trail head just before bridge in the late afternoon. After the forest section, we were in late afternoon shade all the way up and it was still hot. No bugs! but very rocky, some of them wet or with mud pockets. Watch your footing. Bring lots of energy.
The middle third of the hike is a series of outstanding waterfalls. We only saw a couple of people hiking out. Abundant berries of diff. varieties slowed our progress. Arrived just as the sun was setting, with the moon sitting south over the ring of mountains. An absolute fairy land of beauty.
We were all by ourselves and could not believe the beauty. It was warm all night and sunrise was gorgeous with thick white clouds covering the valleys below us. The rock is so smoothe you can walk all over with bare feet. Later in the morning, misty fog drifted in and out of our world. It was fun to appear and disappear from each other as we scrambled up to peek over the west ridges.
Wish we could have stayed another night but duty called and the forecast was for rain Fri. Wouldn't want to go down all that rock in the rain. This trail is really warm in the morning until you hit forest again. Emergen C really helped when we begin to lose energy from all that leaking we were doing. (fizzy packets of flavored vitamins and electrolytes to add to your water-available at Trader Joe's) NO, I don't make any money from telling you this.
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