Spray Park — Wednesday, Jul. 28, 2021

Day hike to spray park and the beginning of Seattle Park. We arrived at the Mowich Lake parking area at 930 on a Wednesday morning. Got one of the last spots in the parking lot. Put toilets at trial head we’re reasonably clean and stocked with TP. We headed out on the Spray Park trail, took both the Eagle Cliff and Spray Falls diversions. The falls were very lovely. We had shade and a light breeze for most of the walk up to Spray Park. But this section is still a slog of switch backs with lots of roots and rocks. But the payoff when you hit Spray Park is totally worth it. Tons of flowers. Avalanche lilies are fading, lots of blue lupine and many others I can’t name. The bugs were irritating but not terrible. We had permethrin treated clothes, 25% deet spray and face nets. We turned around 4.5 miles from the trailhead when we hit the third snowfield and the trail got much harder to follow. We made it back to Mowich Lake by 230, in time for a late picnic lunch and refreshing swim. All in all a great day