My best friend and I did Spray Park trail this morning left Mowich lake at 7:15 am had to be done early. We got up to Spray Park around 9:30 and it was beautiful. Much better than the last time I was there about 3 weeks ago with lots of snow. The flowers were in bloom and bugs were out. But it was a sight to see, we were the first on the trail this morning. I had a baby shower to go to at 1:00 so we were in a rush and on the way down from the meadows; my friend Annie saw a bear! She yelled at me from the lead, there is a bear hurry up and keep going...I said ""what, where!?"" and wanted to stop and take a photo. I didn't believe her at first and questioned if she was serious. we have been hiking and snowshoeing together for a while now and never seen a bear, she she said ""YES"", she was serious and shaking and that this bear was very close to the trail 20-30 yards and scared her. I wanted a picture and almost went back, but thought better of it. We got back to the car at 11:30 and I barley made it to the baby shower in time. All and all a good day no rain and saw bits of the mountain. 1 marmot, 1 bear, 1 waterfall, mountain, and heard lots of bugs and birds. We are doing Tomie Peak tomorrow. No need for gatters only a tiny bit of snow in the meadows.

Trail was in good shape only one major blow-down that was difficult to get around. Bugs were few and far between. There was a fair amount of snow around Mowich lake, the road up was nice, no potholes yet. I would guess in about 3-4 weeks snow will be gone. Saw about 20 people on the trail today. Trail was muddy and slippery in spots. At Spray Park there is still a fair amount of snow, meadows are not in bloom yet. Overall great hike. If you go make sure to see Spray Falls. I would do this one again at the end of July after snow is completely gone.

Not too many cars at the TH, no bees on the trail and still plenty of blueberries. Fall colors are peaking!! Hopefully NP service will keep the road open to Mowich a bit longer this year.

This was another first for me this year. We came for the flowers and were not disappointed. Glorious paintbrush, bluebells, avalanche and glacier lilies, bracketed lousewort, bear grass in full bloom, heather, lupine (with marmots munching upon), a few select tiger lilies, one deer, 2 marmots, 500 billion little and huge biting flies, 400 billion mosquitoes, at least 200-300 hikers, 4 skiers, one rude trail runner and 2 rangers were sighted. The trail starts by descending 300 feet before the 2200 foot ascent. The trail is in excellent shape and only has a few moments of knee torture and dust eating. Make sure you do all of the side trail viewpoints! Each meadow was in a slightly different phase of bloom. And the views from the top were stupendous. We stopped at the first large snowfield that looked to be easily enough crossed. Temps seemed to be around 10 degrees less than at the lake but this hike in this weeks weather needs tons of water and salt replacement. Thanks to the NWHikers forums I tried something new: An all cotton shirt that was soaked with body cooling sweat the entire hike. This really works in the heat wave temps! The road is also easily drivable by the standard sedan.

Gorgeous day on the mountain! The bear grass is in full bloom and magnificent -- lots of it on the lower part of the trail and at the top. Avalanche lillies are also out in the meadows at the top -- fields on them in full bloom. Jeffrey's Shooting Stars are plentiful near almost all the running water. Some lupine and paintbrush in the meadows. Lots of tiger lillies on the drive up to Mowich Lake, but none on the trail. We went as far as the third major meadow -- no snow on the trail. But the mosquitos were awful once we got to the meadows and they got worse the higher up we went. So no one was lingering -- if you could stand the mosquito swarms, you had the meadows pretty much to yourselves...